Word: madison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, one wishes that Madison Avenue would leave the best oldies alone. No Marvin. No Aretha. Frankie Avalon, sure, but no Elvis Presley. Gerry and the Pacemakers, please, but don't mess with the Crystals or the Drifters. But as Buddy Holly sang, "That...
...gargantuan 54- story modernist tower built over its waiting room. And it was a mere 20 years ago, give or take, that St. Louis razed 40 quaint blocks of riverfront warehouses; that Pasadena, Calif., tore up a fine commercial neighborhood to build a standard aluminum shopping mall; that Madison, Wis., let Burger King raze an 1850s stone house for its headquarters; that New York City tore down McKim, Mead and White's glorious Pennsylvania Station...
With a circulation of about 1,000, the Tribune was a sleepy small-town weekly -- until its boy editor stumbled on punchboard gambling in Madison County. With the impetuousness of youth, Simon unearthed a daisy chain of gambling and prostitution operating under the protection of local officials. A typical issue of the Tribune would combine an angry front-page editorial decrying gambling with an earnest column by the editor ("Trojan Thoughts") singing the praises of church camps...
...Wall Street response was to turn to Madison Avenue. Sober television commercials popped up between World Series innings to reassure investors that their money was safe, and full-page ads appeared in major newspapers. Declared Prudential-Bache in large black type: "Now, especially now, you need an investment firm that is rock solid." That, of course, is exactly what Prudential claimed to be. Shearson Lehman implored readers to "talk with us" because "we share the concerns of every serious investor." Admonished Merrill Lynch: "The worst thing to do right now would be to sell at distressed prices...
Many of the new telecommuters and home entrepreneurs are women who want to spend more time with their children. Typical is Bonnie Figgatt, 38, of Madison, Conn., who works at home as a planning manager for the Travelers Cos., the corporate parent of the insurance and financial-services firm. Even though she must drive her 18-month-old son Thomas to a nearby baby-sitter every workday, Figgatt has more time for him in the morning and evening because she no longer has to commute 35 miles each way to company headquarters in Hartford. She finds her new life comparatively...