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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last week, at the meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Austin, Sereno for the first time revealed details of the find, made last year by a joint U.S.-Argentine expedition. The dinosaur was named Herrerasaurus, after Victorino Herrera, the goat farmer who first led scientists to the area in northwestern Argentina where the bones were found. Smaller than Apatosaurus and less fearsome than Tyrannosaurus, this dinosaur flourished 230 million years ago during the unique period when most of the earth's landmasses were gathered into a single supercontinent, now called Pangea. Until the most recent find, only...
...Last week Xerox won recognition for its comeback when President Bush singled out the company's business products and systems division, which makes its copiers, as one of two winners of the 1989 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The awards, named for the Commerce Secretary who died in 1987, were , established by Congress to motivate U.S. companies. Given for the first time last year, they have already become a sought-after prize in corporate America. Collecting the other 1989 award: Milliken & Co., a leading textiles manufacturer based in Spartanburg, S.C. Bush, who has seized the quality banner to promote American...
...cluster of art deco edifices was completed on Nov. 1, 1939, Rockefeller Center has been hailed as an urban masterpiece. Tourists flock to its ice rink to watch skaters twirl and to Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes do their high kicks with uncanny precision. But last week the Manhattan landmark, which houses U.S. companies ranging from General Electric to Simon & Schuster, took on a fresh symbolism. Control of the 19-building center passed into foreign hands when Japan's Mitsubishi Estate Co. agreed to pay $846 million for a 51% share of the Rockefeller Group, which owns...
...investments create the largest public stir, in part because Japan is the greater economic rival -- and in part because some racially insensitive Americans apply different standards to European and Asian investment. Japanese direct investment in U.S. companies and real estate increased from $35.2 billion in 1987 to $53.4 billion last year, a gain of 52%. British investment climbed from $79.7 billion to $101.9 billion over the same period, for a 27.9% increase...
Couch potatoes, your last excuse is gone. You knew you should be getting into your running shoes and hitting the pavement. After all, everyone concedes that exercising is one of the best ways to stave off heart attacks and other health problems. But hard physical exertion is downright unpleasant, and you -- along with about 50 million other sedentary Americans -- could be forgiven for putting it off or avoiding it altogether...