Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, CBS Records has decided that flip sides should go the way of crew cuts and bobby-sox. Aiming to boost sagging record sales, the company last week began selling low-priced singles with songs on only one side...
...music buffs, the flip side of a 45-r.p.m. record is as alluring as the hit side. It is a freebie, a mystery song that might become a chart buster in its own right. Elvis Presley's Hound Dog, for example, was on the back side of Don't Be Cruel...
Since 1973, the price of a 45 has risen from about $1 to as high as $1.99. At the same time, U.S. sales of singles have dropped 36%. By eliminating the flip side, CBS will reduce expenses. As a result, the new 45s will again sell for around...
...abrupt hikes were the ironic flip side of falling world oil prices. Kuwait's revenues will drop by about $5 billion this year. The government hopes to offset that by charging domestic energy users more at the pump. Of course, Western drivers would be glad to get back to the days when they paid only...
...like his father, on the edge of the rackets, looking over his shoulder for the cops and the robbers. His brother Paul is harder to place; neither we nor anyone else knows where he is going. Though most of the plot concerns him and his failures, it flip-flops pointlessly, meandering as unsympathetically as the character himself "Don't downgrade yourself," his mother constantly nags. "A hundred and forty-eight IQ is genius." But Paul hangs his head, stutters and complains that the people and the walls are closing in at school. So he doesn't go and spends hours...