Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...batch of popular syndicated programs, usually tucked away on independent stations. Eight such series are on the market. Three of them -- Star Trek: The Next Generation, Friday the 13th: The Series and War of the Worlds -- were among the five top-rated weekly syndicated shows at the end of last season. Oddly, they have attracted little notice beyond their cult audiences, even from the clean-TV crusaders, who would probably be appalled by the prolific (though rarely graphic) violence. Which is just fine, since it allows the rest of us to enjoy some B-movie pleasures: comic-book energy, throw...
...cover the gap, which in a free-market economy would increase inflation. But under the severe price controls of a command economy, the money has no place to go but under the mattress. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based consulting firm, estimates that by the end of 1989 the store of unspent, readily available money will exceed 460 billion rubles, at least a third of which would be spent immediately if goods were on hand...
...disclosures are not likely to be heeded. The Street provokes a book of revelations nearly every year, but the con men, the customers and the crashes go on. Aside from Lewis, hardly anyone seems to notice that Wall Street has always been a thoroughfare with a river at one end and a cemetery at the other...
...Fujisankei Communications Group. Jimmy Carter was in Nashville instructing listeners on how he wrote his books. Richard Nixon huffed off yet again to China after disconnecting his AT&T phone service because the company was sponsoring the TV version of The Final Days, last weekend's account of the end of Watergate and Nixon's presidency. Gerald Ford was at the Herbert Hoover Library in West Branch, Iowa, of all places, addressing a conference called "Farewell to the Chief," a discussion of life after the White House. Expenses paid, of course...
...soon. The vision is for a new Europe that extends to the Soviet border and beyond -- with a united Germany in the middle of the emerging entity. Says Chancellor Helmut Kohl: "If the Germans say, 'We belong together,' then no matter how long it may take, in the end they will achieve the unity and freedom of Germany...