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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surf was up and the video arcades were jammed last week as hordes of kids played enforced hooky, while their teachers continued striking in Los Angeles, the country's second largest school district...
...deal, until the Boston Herald ran a picture of the Chevy with its spanking-new inspection sticker in the window and the Governor and his driver standing nearby. Headline: DUKE FAILS TO STICK TO INSPECT LAW. Before long, the crack drive-time team at one of Cape Cod's largest radio stations began repeating the story, complete with sirens in the background, advising listeners that they too could avoid tickets if only they had a Governor riding in the backseat. The "Backseat Governor" spots tapped a well of venom toward Dukakis, who recently jacked up registration and driver's-license...
...brandy business and 1,160 acres of prime vineyards to Heublein, a subsidiary of London-based Grand Metropolitan, for an undisclosed amount, perhaps as much as $150 million. Heublein, which owns California's Inglenook vineyard but has no major brandy label of its own, would thus become the largest vintner (1,940 acres) in the Napa Valley...
When it happened, suddenly a million or more marchers were streaming into Tiananmen, perhaps ten times as many as had been there the day before. It was the largest demonstration in modern Chinese history. People poured out of factories and hospitals, the Foreign Ministry and kindergartens. And not just in Beijing. By midweek the ferment had spread to at least a dozen other cities, with another hunger strike taking place in Shanghai. In some provincial cities, plans for a general strike were reported...
Caperton's success is also rooted in his experience running his family's insurance business in Charleston, which he built from a small operation into the nation's 18th largest brokerage. His politics, like his business management, depends on a salesman's enthusiasm and a willingness to listen. "I've never felt I had all the brains or all the answers," says Caperton. "If you expect more from people and respect what they have to say, it improves performance tremendously...