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...momentum. But late in the first period, Dave Brown's line went out onto the ice. Edmonton Coach Glenn Sather, exercising the home team's right of the last line change, sent out a line of Mark Messier, Kent Nilsson and Glenn Anderson, the team's fastest trio...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Hockey Goons: Dinosaurs Of The '80s | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

...toys: Teddy Ruxpin, the personable talking bear that debuted in 1985, and last year's Lazer Tag ray-gun game. The company, soon known aptly enough as WOW, chalked up earnings of $18.6 million on sales of $327 million during its past fiscal year, making it one of the fastest-growing new manufacturing concerns in history. But in the view of industry analysts, the company expanded too swiftly and spent too much money just as the toy market began to slump. By the third quarter of this year, WOW posted a loss of $43 million. Its stock has plunged from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Call These Toys? | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Starting in the other guard position is senior Mary Baldauf, arguably the Crimson's fastest player. Baldauf put in quality performances as a reserve last season, and should be "an integral part of the fast break," Delaney Smith said...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Perspective | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...Minute University" tenured the world's fastest talker to zip through lectures on 10 subjects key to any core curriculum. If the American mind is closed, Professor John Moschitta's curriculum will enlighten it in about as much time as it takes an automatic garage door to open and shut...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: An Academia Nut | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

After six years of economic crisis, Mexico's prospects finally seemed to brighten this year. The country's stock market became the world's fastest- rising exchange, as share prices climbed more than 649% during the first nine months of 1987. The government's foreign currency reserves swelled by 150% to a comfortable $17 billion, the highest level of any Latin American debtor country, and a surge of exports helped the Mexicans rack up a $6.6 billion trade surplus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peso Panic: Mexico's currency plunges | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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