Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entry, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, has, in Variety's cheery phrase, "slashed its way into b.o. history." The picture, made for a puny $6 million, earned $12.8 million in its first three days -- better than Roger Rabbit, bigger than Big -- for the fourth best opening weekend of the year and the best ever tallied by an independently released film...
...pastime to have as little of your own money in your business as possible," complains a bank regulator. Repaying the debt from LBOs could prove particularly difficult during an economic downturn. Already the 21 top American banks hold an estimated $17 billion in LBO loans, or just under one-fourth of their exposure to Third World loans. First Chicago's LBO portfolio amounts to 55% of shareholder equity. Says a former executive at a major bank: "If the crunch comes, it will be from LBO debt, not Third World debt...
...deans whose predominant qualification is administration," observes American University's Anderson. Tom Read, the new dean of the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, exemplifies the trend. Read enjoys "the hurly-burly of the dean's office," so much so that his new post is his fourth deanship. "A law-school dean is in some ways more like a football coach than an academician," he says. "You pull the team together, win as many battles as you can and move...
...often present for the throwing of the switch, but this was an unusual sunset. Even the buildings across the street wore bunting. A World Series supply of chroniclers from the American as well as the National League showed up to see the last-place Phillies oppose the fourth-place Cubs, whose proprietors said they had to give in to television and go incandescent or risk having to host every one of their postseason games in St. Louis. If any. The Cubs are 80 years between World Championships and pennantless since World...
...Orange County, Calif., is one of four children born to an air-conditioner retailer and his wife. "I was a tomboy," she says, "always beating somebody up. The comments on my report card said that I needed to work on my mouth -- I talked way too much. Then, in fourth grade, boys started to find me attractive, so I put away my boxing gloves." At school Michelle acted up; at home she acted out. "I'd sing into the garden hose and pretend I was Elvis," she recalls. "Whenever I'd try to con my mother, she'd say, 'What...