Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York State, where the number of milk cows has hit a 60-year low, prices at the dairy-farm level are up 11% over last year, to $1.40 per gal. Chicago-area producer prices have risen 13%, to $1.25 per gal. Dairy experts believe the shortages and price increases will continue through the winter, when consumption is highest. For relief, major dairy-product buyers are urging the Government to lift restrictions against milk imports...
With such a proposition, who could lose? Take Jackie Mason, the veteran Borscht Belt comic. Put him in a sitcom produced by the same people who created hits for Bill Cosby and Roseanne Barr. Give it the surefire time period following No. 1-rated Roseanne. Almost every TV prognosticator in the business picked Chicken Soup as the season's big hit. But Mason had a troubled autumn. He got bad reviews, both for his acting and for making racially inflammatory remarks during the New York City mayoral race. More dismaying to ABC, Chicken Soup -- though the highest-rated...
Born to be hated: fresh-faced white boys, copping black street attitudes, co-opting black dance sounds, style and slang. They produce Reddi Wip pop music that comes out of nowhere but sells a cumulative 7 million on two albums, scoring with five hit singles (Cover Girl is currently No. 2), while the R. and B. brothers still struggle for the mainstream breakthrough...
Since the strike began, air traffic has fallen from an average of 268,000 passengers a week to just 119,000 recently. In a sprawling land where air transportation is vital to daily commerce, the strike is strangling the economy. Hardest hit is tourism, Australia's largest industry. If the strike persists until Christmas, the country's tourism revenues could decline $500 million this year, a 30% drop from 1988. In Melbourne alone, 417 conferences and conventions have been canceled. Unless the strike is settled soon, travel industry experts say that three-fourths of Australia's large hotel chains will...
...intercom systems so that trouble can be reported instantly, and cash awards to students who report problems. Along with the usual fire drills, some schools in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland have scheduled "yellow-code alerts" for classes from kindergarten up. "We have to teach students to hit the deck when the bullets fly," explains one preparedness expert...