Word: covered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among other family features: payments of up to $2,000 to cover costs when workers adopt children and a $5 million fund to help support and establish child-care centers. But the benefits were not free. In return for these and other new provisions, employees agreed to forgo automatic cost of living adjustments...
...forgiven for occasionally thinking there is something leisurely about putting together a magazine that comes out only once a week. That is rarely true, and it certainly wasn't last week. On Saturday we were ready to go to press in the U.S. and Canada with a cover story on the frightening tide of violence among American youths when we heard news of the massacre in Beijing. Shortly before midnight, with the death toll rising into the hundreds, Executive Editor Ronald Kriss made the decision to change the cover. Then, as if things were not complicated enough, he heard that...
...Birnbaum and Staff Writer Howard G. Chua-Eoan sat down at their computer terminals and began updating the story that Associate Editor Jill Smolowe had finished Friday evening. Picture Editor Michele Stephenson sorted through color photos coming in by satellite, and Deputy Art Director Arthur Hochstein prepared the new cover. Sunday morning, as the sun was rising over Manhattan, we were done...
...violent youth remains in the magazine. The only element we lost was the arresting collage that Frances Jetter, an accomplished New York artist, was still finishing up at 2 o'clock Saturday morning. That's why, in a break with our tradition, we thought we'd show you the cover that almost made...
Guns N' Roses put out an album called Appetite for Destruction, which has sold more than 6 million copies. The jacket cover, featuring a robot looming over a woman in torn clothing, was so repellent that some record stores refused to carry the album. Says Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents' Music Resource Center and a longtime critic of rock lyrics: "Music companies are cultural strip miners, profiting from the sex and violence and ignoring the scars...