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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sobering news even for Washington cynics. NASA officials were one Government group considered to be impervious to scandal. Last week, though, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted James M. Beggs, NASA'S administrator and a former executive vice president of General Dynamics, the third largest U.S. defense manufacturer. Although the charge had nothing to do with NASA business, it was still a blow to agency morale and prestige...
...since the time when Gepetto-like craftsmen turned out spinning tops, dolls and sleds. The onetime humble toymakers have evolved into giant fantasy factories that are battling for the hearts and attention of America's children with marching armies of curious and sometimes fearsome characters. This year the two largest U.S. manufacturers, Hasbro and Mattel, expect to ring up more than $1 billion each in revenues for the first time ever. Total retail toy sales grew 20% last year, thanks to a healthy economy and the excitement stirred by such blockbuster products as Coleco's Cabbage Patch Kids and Hasbro...
...have a vaguely scruffy look and finger a thick stubble of half-grown beard. When they go out, however, they are smooth and trim, clean-shaven, and smelling faintly of lotions and creams. This is the Shaving Research Room, the living heart of the world's largest razor blade factory: Gillette Corp.'s World Shaving Headquarters in South Boston...
...10th anniversary, The Harvard Medical School Health Letter, founded by Johnson and Associate Professor of Medicine Stephan E. Goldfinger, reaches more than 315,000 subscribers nationwide, making it the third largest American newsletter...
...Harvard Community Health Plan is one of the oldest health management organizations in the country, and it is the largest one in the state...