Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jack Conners, founder of Boston's Hill Holiday advertising agency, explains the reason for Mass appeal. Hill Holiday has grown from $20 million in billings ten years ago to $245 million today, partly by telling consumers why computers will change their lives. "The politicians will take credit for it; the businessmen will take credit for it, but"--and here he points out the window of his 39th-floor office across the Charles River toward Harvard and M.I.T. --"the real key to it all is the universities...
...territory like the Old South; 2) south Texas, with its enormous Hispanic population, a borderland as much Mexican as American; 3) West Texas, arid ranching and oil country with huge vistas and forbidding distances; 4) the Panhandle, high plains farming country like the Midwest; 5) central Texas, the hill country, physically the loveliest part of the state, its roads in springtime bordered with bright wildflowers...
Texas harbors surprises: Germans in the hill country, for example, still speaking in the accents that their forebears brought over in the 1840s. Says Robert Strauss, the Texan who is former chairman of the Democratic National Committee: "Texas is a montage of America. From the financial center of Dallas to the high-tech areas of Austin to the agricultural communities. It represents the sea and the mountains and the valleys, great wealth and pockets of poverty...
Even if Casey persists, the final say on prosecution belongs to Attorney General Edwin Meese. At the moment, Justice Department lawyers are cool to the idea. "We're not hot to trot on this thing," says one Justice official. That lack of enthusiasm is mirrored on Capitol Hill by lawmakers who deal regularly with the CIA. Says Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, vice chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence: "When you go after press organizations, you're treating the symptoms rather than the problem...
...promises to push through the measure on the Senate floor next month; and Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat who for five years has been building the case for reform. Lobbyists representing interests ranging from real estate syndicators to restaurant owners vowed to descend on Capitol Hill to do battle. Acknowledging that brutal struggles lie ahead, Bradley, a former New York Knicks basketball star, warned, "Unlike many games I have played in, there are five periods. We've only finished the third." But even former skeptics were saying that reform now has the momentum. "Two weeks ago, tax reform...