Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first down, then found Lewis open on sideline patterns on the next two plays, for a total of 16 yards. After another completed pass to halfback Tom Norton, Columbia had swankered from its own 11 to the Harvard 39 in only four plays. After the game, Restic would express disappointment with his team's inability to close down the Lions passing attack in the game's latter moments...
...tune when big-city newspapers across the country are in trouble (latest fatality: the Cowles-owned Buffalo Courier-Express, which last week was announced as scheduled to close Sept. 19), newspaper executives are inclined to applaud any new venture in the industry. But as Los Angeles Times Publisher Tom Johnson points out, "USA Today's success will be determined by a very tough public and by advertisers looking for the best possible increase in sales." Business Analyst R. Joseph Fuchs of Kidder, Peabody and Co. Inc. rates USA Today's chances as "better than even." John Morton...
...addition of American Express (1981 sales: $7.2 billion) startled many Wall Streeters, since it was the first financial firm to join the so-called 30 industrials. The new arrival, though, reflected the trend of the U.S. economy away from the smokestack industries and toward services...
Although Diners' Club first issued credit cards in 1950, American Express leaped ahead after introducing its green card in 1958. The firm now has some 14 million pieces of plastic in use, against about 2 million for Diners' Club. Visa and MasterCard, which issue their cards through banks, are far bigger. Each has about 70 million cards in circulation. But Amex insists that its members are more affluent and use their cards more often...
Amex paid nearly $1 billion in stock for Shearson last year and became a giant in the new financial services field. Shearson/American Express has already introduced a new account that combines a charge card, brokerage services, checking and money-market funds into a single package...