Word: lengthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That to some degree the length and strength of the present expansion, the < fact that we've gone as far as we have with as little inflation as we've had -- although I'm quite worried about the inflation rate now -- is not unrelated to what we went through early in the decade...
...turn VCR fanatics, who spent $7.5 billion buying and renting tapes in 1987, into music freaks. Two major artists from Columbia Records (owned, of course, by Sony) have become point men in this brand-new marketing assault: Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, who are both releasing new, ambitious feature-length video albums...
...will have a "melting pot" of guests: "You'll see ((rap singer)) L.L. Cool J and ((country star)) Reba McEntire meeting each other." Sajak, who appeals to an older crowd, will have Barry Goldwater and Vanna White on one upcoming program, and hopes his show's 90-minute length will allow time for more than the usual plug-happy celebrities. "I've always admired Paar's knack of finding witty, interesting conversationalists from the ranks of character actors, politicians and authors," he says. A worthy goal -- maybe too worthy for the glitzy, competitive late-night arena...
...presses: TIME's second book, The Winning of the White House 1988. Written by five TIME staffers who covered the campaign, edited by special projects editor Donald Morrison and introduced by historian Garry Wills, this concise inside story is the first book-length chronicle to reach the bookstores after the longest and nastiest presidential campaign in memory. Read it for the definitive account of how George Bush...
...Clipper Maid of the Seas, the 15th 747 to come off the Boeing production line, had been in service since February 1970 and had made some 16,500 takeoffs and landings. Despite the plane's age and length of service, however, most aviation experts would not rate the aircraft as particularly worn or fatigued. Moreover, the airline pointed out that the plane had been fully refitted 15 months ago and was checked and serviced in San Francisco only a week before the crash...