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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toilet stalls. They are the kind of girls who obey their mothers' warnings never to sit on strange toilet seats. Attendants have to nip in after that type, making sure the next woman will have no unpleasant surprises. That is the sort of job specification that made Donna Summer's song about a ladies' room attendant, She Works Hard for the Money, a big hit, especially in the neon city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...however, Davis, who has occasionally vexed her father with liberal views on premarital sex and marijuana, opted for a traditional wedding. Ronald and Nancy Reagan came down from their ranch near Santa Barbara to give away the bride and meet their daughter's new in-laws, Terrence and Donna Grilley. While 134 guests looked on (and 180 police and federal agents looked out), the couple exchanged vows and gold bands, hers studded with five diamonds. Afterward, the President toasted the newlyweds, saying, "May they know this kind of joy for the rest of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 27, 1984 | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...Donna Langsam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Olympic Fever | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...results proved we needed a law to get these opportunities," says Donna de Varona, who, after winning two gold medals in swimming in 1964 at the age of 17, was in effect forced into retirement. "My best friend, Gold Medalist Don Schollander, had a full scholarship to Yale. Girls weren't even admitted to Yale then, and there were no women's swimming scholarships anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Out of the Tunnel into History | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...Whirlpool's $2.7 billion annual sales of dishwashers, dryers and clotheswashers, which it sells under its own Kenmore name. Whirlpool has a Sales to Sears department that caters to the retailer's specifications. The relationship has gone on for 65 years, with no written contract. Says Donna McLean, a Whirlpool official: "Any customer who represents 43% of your business is going to carry a lot of weight." Sears owns no factories outright, but it does own large shares of some of its suppliers. It has 33% of Roper, its range-maker, 31% of De-Soto, which supplies paints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sear's Sizzling New Vitality | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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