Word: ince
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drinking with a new rigor. The neotemperance has already inspired tough drunk-driving laws to combat highway bloodshed (see following story). Basic to it all: people are drinking lighter and drinking less, and seem to be proud of it. A new poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., showed that only 67% of the nation's 170 million adults over 18 said that they drank at all. More than a third of them acknowledged that they have cut back their consumption over the past few years; only 6% said they drank more...
...public seems to agree. In a new poll for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc.,* respondents were asked what they thought was the gravest problem the nation faced. Some 23% volunteered the budget deficit as an answer, more than those identifying any other subject. What should be done to reduce the deficit? Cut spending, said 60%. What spending? Respondents put military outlays at the top of the hit list; 64% wanted them slashed...
...alter his empire (not to mention his passport) is March 28, 1985. Murdoch was paying his first visit to the Hollywood studios of 20th Century-Fox, half of which he had just bought from Denver Oil Tycoon Marvin Davis. As it happened, John Kluge, the billionaire chieftain of Metromedia Inc., was also on the lot that day to attend an investment conference...
...command and control most military satellite missions and space shuttle flights, jobs that are currently performed at the Air Force Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. According to the Air Force, the first phase of construction (a subsidiary of Bechtel Group, Inc., alma mater of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, was awarded the contract) will be finished by the end of 1985, enabling CSOC to begin taking charge of satellite missions. By the 1990s ground control for military shuttles would shift from Houston to CSOC...
...according to First Boston Inc., Coke maintained 24.3 percent of the soft drink market and Pepsi held 18 percent. At the end of 1984, Pepsi was up to 18.8 and Coke down...