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...most important item in the recent Currier House Newsletter reads. "Welcome to Currier's rising sophomores and condolences to the unwise and unfortunate who were sent down to the River What must life be like without the prospect of a Straus...
...bursting out all over. Not only has the 15-month-old arcade game swallowed up an estimated $1 billion in quarters to become the hottest item in the video-game market, but the little yellow creature is now invading homes and spawning nearly 200 offshoots ranging from jeans to a chart-busting pop song, Pac-Man Fever...
...order to spread the pleasure around-and, not incidentally, to keep the balance sheets burgeoning-Armani is opening a string of shops called Emporiums, which will sell a full line of clothing significantly less expensive than his ready-to-wear. "The kids wouldn't buy an item only because it had the Armani label," Galeotti explains. "We had to meet their demands-and their price range." Four Emporiums are already open; by September, there will be nearly 50 others all over Italy. And only, for the time being, in Italy. Prices can be kept down because the items...
...manufacture and assembly of nuclear weapons are bid out to private suppliers, as is the case with every other item in the U.S. defense arsenal. Final assembly takes place in a spread of low buildings, protected by guard dogs and a high cyclone fence, that range over several acres north of Amarillo, Texas. The heavily guarded facility is owned by the Department of Energy, but the day-to-day business of building warheads and bombs at the site is the responsibility of the little-known Kentucky-based engineering firm of Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason...
...Inflation, principally-and poor planning for it. Printing and paper costs rose; prices were passed on to the consumer. But in a high-volume business, where the shelf life of a book is measured in days, the average $2.25 per paperback could no longer be considered an impulse-buying item. The result: of the 900 million paperbacks shipped last year, nearly one-third were unsold. The paperback recession was echoed in the diminishing rewards to writers. Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift brought $313,000 back in 1975, but The Dean's December earned about two-thirds...