Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Though last year was a difficult one for the entire industry, TIME not only maintained but enhanced its leadership in the magazine field. We increased our edge in advertising revenue and had the largest share of ad pages in all newsmagazines for our strongest showing in two decades. Reader demand for TIME also remained strong. In the U.S., our circulation exceeded our guaranteed rate base by 232,395 copies in 1986, compared with 96,320 in 1985. That brought our weekly U.S. sales total to more than 4.8 million copies, reaching more than 23 million readers. In addition, readers...
...modernization program might be in danger. The State Council, China's executive branch of government, announced that no ! more products would be added to the categories in which prices are allowed to float. An official report stressed the importance of "mandatory" centralized planning. The reformers' emphasis on stimulating consumer demand was criticized in the People's Daily, the party newspaper. In addition, the State Council set up a new press and publications office with full censorship powers and the authority to license publications and close down "illegal" printing operations...
Throughout the chain, the sales help strictly follow a dictum laid down by the company's president, James Nordstrom, 46: replace anything on demand, no matter how expensive, no questions asked. Although the policy is sometimes abused by shoppers (who may, for example, order a $500 dress, wear it once to a party, and then return it), it works well for Nordstrom. Says Skidmore: "I < couldn't believe how nice they were being. I bought another pair of shoes on the spot...
These questions took on new urgency last week when the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration recommended by a 10-1 vote that the FDA approve AZT as the first commercially available treatment for AIDS. The news generated heavy demand from America's 13,000 AIDS victims. For among potential AIDS drugs being tested, only AZT seems to prolong life, specifically for people with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). The prospect of public release intensified ethical concerns surrounding not only drugs for AIDS treatment but also vaccines to prevent...
...Irishman, a South Korean and a Saudi Arabian. Last week Vice President George Bush confirmed that another American hostage, CIA Beirut Station Chief William Buckley, was killed last year by his captors. Anderson and Sutherland were abducted in the spring of 1985 by Shi'ite radicals. Their captors' principal demand: the release of 17 presumed Shi'ites who are serving prison sentences for, among other things, terrorist attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. Three other Americans, Joseph Cicippio, Frank Reed and Edward Tracy, are said to be held by groups called the Revolutionary Justice Organization and Arab...