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...unemployment fell, all more rapidly than almost any economists or business leaders had dared to hope at the end of the frightening 1981-82 recession. The inflation rate dropped lower than it had been since 1972. Federal Judge Harold Greene supervised the final breakup of the world's largest corporation...
...facts, CBS reporters aired evidence from two new alibi witnesses for Geter. The young engineer had a bit of luck. Explains Sigel: "The show came on immediately after the Dallas Cowboys game against Seattle. Dallas won, so people kept watching." The segment, seen by 40 million people, drew the largest number of letters in 60 Minutes' history...
...only has the success of MTV forced radio to play a wider variety of music-to "open its playlists," as industry slang puts it-it has itself assumed both the aspect of radio and much of its influence. "MTV is the largest radio station in America," says CBS Records Vice President Frank M. Dileo...
...known that the White House has sounded out pockets of potential Protestant opposition and found only minimal political damage. However, several organizations, including the National Council of Churches, have expressed their dismay. "I'm appalled," says President James Draper of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant group. More adverse publicity for the Administration could be generated by Senate confirmation of the first Ambassador to the Vatican. He is likely to be Reagan's current personal representative, William Wilson, 69, a Catholic convert, California businessman and Reagan intimate...
...that will upgrade academic requirements, lengthen the school day and, to the consternation of some educators, force all of the state's 24,000 teachers to pass basic competency tests or lose their jobs. To pay for this, legislators raised the sales tax to 4% from 3%, the largest such increase in the state's history, providing an additional $150 million. The reforms follow the patterns set by Florida and California earlier this year. Even Mississippi, which once shared the nation's academic spending basement, passed a reform program last December to upgrade its schools. Governor Clinton...