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...economics beat reporter in the mid-1980s, and later as a foreign correspondent and columnist traveling to over 100 countries, Kristof has displayed a “gift for getting to the heart of the matter,” says Susan D. Chira ’80, foreign editor of the Times and a former Crimson president...
...mid-1980s, General Mills realized that the real Americans eating their yogurt from those slim, tapered cups were women in their 20s and 30s. A low-fat version of the Original followed in 1987. Sales soured in the early 1990s as yogurt struggled to define itself as an everyday snack and dessert, although many consumers saw it more as just a diet food. Eventually, consumer tastes caught up with yogurt's image, and a growing concern for fitness turned yogurt into what Sanger calls "a lifestyle badge...
...Created in the mid-1980s as a cost-effective way of using "tough love" to turn around troubled youth, many juvenile boot camp programs have closed due to poor performance and marginal results. North Dakota, Colorado and Arizona all abandoned boot camps in the 1990s after mounting allegations of abused kids were measured against miserable recidivism rates. Georgia shut down its program in 1999 and Texas, a state synonymous with discipline, is shuttering its programs. Even before the latest controversy, Florida was in the process of scaling back its boot camps. Now, however, it wouldn't surprise anybody if that...
MURDERED. Denis Donaldson, 56, former official in Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, who in December admitted he had been spying on the I.R.A. for the British since the mid-1980s; by gunfire; at his family's holiday home in County Donegal, Ireland. The I.R.A., which renounced political violence last year but has had a policy of killing suspected informants, denied responsibility for the murder...
...stares to drapes in three easy steps. Vultaggio and partner John Ferolito established a semisuccessful beer distributorship before trying to produce their own brands. Their first choices were a little less refined than mandarin-orange-flavored green tea sweetened with honey. They started Midnight Dragon malt liquor in the mid-1980s and, to promote it, printed thousands of posters featuring a scantily clad woman sipping Midnight Dragon through a straw and a vulgar tagline. Midnight Dragon peaked at 3 million cases annually. In the early '90s, Vultaggio's Crazy Horse malt liquor took off, until protests and lawsuits from Native...