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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration has refused to raise taxes or keep the lid on spending for non-means-tested entitlements, such as Social Security, which are geared towards immediate consumption rather than use in savings and investment. As a result, interest payments on the national debt have become the fastest growing line item in the federal budget, not defense spending...
...Bears were the frozen ones, able to get inside the 49er 40-yard line only twice...
...Mark VII instead of his famous Aston Martin. It's not that No. 007 has altered his automotive allegiance. It's that Ford Motor Co., the maker of the Continental, offered free cars for the film in exchange for putting Bond behind the wheel of its top-of-the-line luxury model. So it was farewell, Aston Martin. In the lucrative world of product placement, show business and big business are seeing eye to eye about getting brand names into the movies. Says director John Badham, who incorporated Alaska Airlines, Apple computers, Bounty paper towels and Ore-Ida frozen french...
Putting products on the big screen is hardly a new pitch. Joan Crawford knocked back Jack Daniel's in Mildred Pierce, and Rosalind Russell dabbed on Charles of the Ritz perfume in Auntie Mame (1958). But ever since lovable E.T. followed a line of Reese's Pieces to a record box-office gross in 1982 -- and & sales of the candy leaped 66% in three months -- film pitches have become a bustling field. Ray-Ban sent 500 pairs of sunglasses to director Oliver Stone for his new feature, Born on the 4th of July. A scene in Cocoon: The Return...
...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...