Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resignation. It was only three years ago that he said, "I want to be a publisher until I'm carried out." Bernstein, 66, insists he had no falling out with Newhouse. But to industry insiders the decision seemed all the more sudden because no replacement was named for the high-powered position...
...work force from 105,000 to 38,000. Since the mid-1980s, the region's industries have diversified into computers, new fisheries and Pacific Rim trade. Unemployment has fallen to a 20-year low of 4.5%. Now business is so brisk at Boeing that not even a record-high work force of 110,000 is enough to meet production schedules. Last month 57,000 machinists went on strike at four Boeing plants, demanding a larger share of company profits. "We have gone through the hard times with this company," a union leader said, "and we want to go through...
...their year-old child to Seattle from Orange County just five months ago. Recalls Terry: "We came here to try to live a simple life on one income. I wanted to be June Cleaver; you know, 'Honey, I'm ho-ome!' " But they soon became disillusioned by the surprisingly high cost of living -- including what they call "sneak taxes" on housing, autos and services -- and convinced that opportunity knocks louder back in Southern California. "I'd love to take our house and lake with us, but I can't wait to get back to the whole Southern California scene," Terry...
Hall raises a clenched fist and rotates it in a circle, inspiring the crowd to respond with its trademark barking chant: "Wooh! Wooh! Wooh!" He races over to bandleader Michael Wolff and greets him by touching index fingers. (No old-fashioned high-fives on The Arsenio Hall Show.) He bounds in and out of the audience, paying special attention to the folks in the bad seats behind the band. By the end of his opening monologue, the crowd is wired. Johnny Carson signals the start of his show with a decorous golf swing. Hall launches the proceedings with...
...just about anything can happen at his nightly party. "There used to be a feeling that late at night people wanted to be put to sleep by a talk show," says producer Marla Kell Brown, 28. "But I don't think that's true for our generation. We want high energy...