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...largest issue in the trial involves network television coverage. The USFL alleges that the NFL conspired with the three major networks to deny the USFL a TV contract this season...
...Saatchi & Saatchi ($3 billion). Perhaps the most ravenous of all the advertising firms, Saatchi & Saatchi took over twelve companies last year. Flush with $600 million raised through a stock offering, Brothers Charles and Maurice Saatchi are prowling for more prey and are determined to build the world's largest agency. Doyle Dane Bernbach turned down a Saatchi offer before deciding to merge with BBDO and Needham; so far, Ted Bates has also ducked Saatchi's advances. Says Abbott Jones, president of the Chicago-based Foote, Cone & Belding agency ($1.9 billion): "It's hard to say where a company like Saatchi...
...taking it from sixth to first place in the agency rankings. BBDO has been on a roll. It won top awards last year for its Pepsi ads. Last week Pepsi signed one of its most celebrated pitchmen, Singer Michael Jackson, to a new $10 million three-year contract, the largest such deal for a single product in advertising history...
...fact that the remains of all seven crew members had been recovered from Challenger's heavily damaged crew compartment on the ocean floor was a tribute to the largest underwater search operation in history. Costing some $20 million, the search also retrieved enough of the shuttle's parts to substantiate the findings of NASA investigators and a presidential commission looking into the disaster. The probers have concluded that a joint between two segments of the shuttle's right booster failed, letting superhot gases escape and rapidly ignite liquid fuel from the external tank, causing an explosion 73 seconds into...
...scarce in Johannesburg. The service at restaurants and on the supermarket lines in Pretoria was painfully slow. And the factories around Port Elizabeth were strangely silent. The reason: millions of black South African drivers, waiters, supermarket cashiers, office clerks and industrial workers had taken the day off, producing the largest antiapartheid protest in the country's history...