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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken on a partner: K mart, the nation's second largest retailer. They make an odd couple: K mart, long plagued by its low-rent reputation, and Stewart, whose life looks like a Ralph Lauren ad. But next spring, as K mart's first "life-style consultant," Stewart will launch under her own name a line of K mart products, including linens, dishes and flatware. This marriage stands to benefit both parties: K mart can trade on Stewart's patrician polish and she on a whole new audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A New Guru of American Taste? | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...dominant firms in the field, all national chains, are Health Management Resources, Medifast and Optifast (which directed Winfrey's loss). Their programs are similar. Patients are put on so-called VLCDs -- very-low-calorie diets -- requiring them to forsake solid food and drink five packets a day of flavored powdered-food supplement containing a total of 400 to 800 calories. Dieters visit the program's doctor and a behavior-modification class once a week to have their health monitored and learn new eating habits. The average weight losses are dramatic: 3 lbs. a week for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Drinking Yourself Skinny | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Bobby Beathard remade our team with low draft picks and free agent no-names, letting their performances dictate their saleries...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Lost Faith: Gibbs and God | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

After going three years without consistent offensive production in the low post, the Crimson appears to have found two players--junior center Malcolm Hollensteiner and freshman power forward Ron Mitchell--who are able to put the ball in the hoop...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Filling the Hole | 12/14/1988 | See Source »

...example, already has both air- and sea-launched cruise missiles, and plans to build thousands of a new, advanced, low-observable "stealth" version. Because they fly slowly compared with ICBMs, American cruise missiles are not by themselves considered a first-strike weapon -- like bombers, they would take hours to hit targets deep inside the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Sides of the Nuclear Sword | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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