Word: localness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even those figures understate the spread of gambling fever. The biggest jump is in gambling that state and local governments not merely tolerate but promote. By next January, lotteries will be operating in 32 states and the District of Columbia, including four states -- Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky and Minnesota -- whose voters approved them in referendums last November. In 1964 only one state, New Hampshire, had a lottery. Christiansen/Cummings figures that the lotteries took in $17 billion last year, up 230% from 1983. As the lotteries have proliferated, so have the jackpots: Pennsylvania's $115.5 million drawing in April prompted bettors from...
...concept moved on to Europe in 1973 and Asia in 1976. In Australia we offer additional local coverage through a joint venture with John Fairfax & Sons Ltd. Last year the various international editions of TIME carried a total of 53 cover stories that did not appear...
...legal struggle, meanwhile, spread to hundreds of cities in which Time's cable-television subsidiary owns franchises. One of Time's anti-takeover strategies has been to say that the transfer of the local cable licenses required by a Paramount takeover would create crippling delays. Time won some support on that front when the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the attorneys general of 13 states expressed concern to the Federal Communications Commission that a hostile takeover of Time's cable-TV operations might violate laws that give state and local governments the right to approve changes in ownership...
...about halfway between New York City and Philadelphia, a number of busy wives and a sprinkling of single women put aside all thoughts of jobs, husbands and children to gather for what has become a new style women's club. In the aerobic dance classes at the local Jazzercise center, women are talking about who's hot on the silver screen, trading bargain tips and supporting new mothers and divorcees. The workout classes have become a combination gossip fence, networking center, self-help group, junior high locker room and place to affirm grownup community values. "There's no place like...
While the Penan are fighting the local loggers, the tribe's real antagonists are some 2,600 miles away, in Japan. Most of the trees cut in the Malaysian part of Borneo (the rest of the island is controlled by Indonesia and Brunei) are shipped to Japan, where the lumber is most often made into throwaway plywood construction forms used to mold concrete. Nor is the situation in Borneo unusual. Japan's heavy demand for wood has led to the deforestation of vast tracts in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Last April the Japan Tropical Forest Action...