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Mackey and Reilly--who have waged a mini-war of negative advertising--each claim they bring the better background...
...mystery -- yet it attracted a fanatically devoted audience. Viewers, it seemed, were a lot more willing to sample unusual, challenging fare than anyone had expected. Just as All in the Family launched a trend toward taboo-breaking, socially relevant sitcoms and Roots ushered in the age of the mini-series, Twin Peaks was supposed to augur a new era of more adventurous, risk-taking network fare...
...ceremony at the library, however, felt like a culmination. The compound at Yorba Linda is a single-story, pink sandstone museum and library that cost $21 million and looks like a suburban mini-mall. It stands beside the small, white frame farmhouse where Nixon was born in 1913. Having consecrated the place -- his life from birth through presidency all handsomely compacted there -- Nixon completed a circle. As he spoke last week, he seemed a little tired and rambling. It had after all been an exhausting 77-year circuit from the room where he was born to this ritual of fulfillment...
Japanese banks are currently intensifying their focus on the European Community. Some 60 Japanese banks have European bases in London, and more will probably follow. Mini-headquarters are also being established on the Continent. Dai-Ichi Kangyo and Fuji Bank have offices in Munich; Sumitomo Bank, Sanwa Bank and the Bank of Tokyo are in Lisbon; and others have set up shop in Paris, Barcelona and Milan. The Japanese are likely to concentrate their activities in merchant banking and the bond markets...
...mentioned Lazar's new mail-order catalog on Good Morning America two months ago, 80,000 viewers wrote to request the guide to discount suppliers of everything from wallpaper and pet food to boating equipment and books. Bubbles the publisher: "There is a movement growing in the country, a mini-revolution. Consumers are putting their feet down and refusing to pay high prices...