Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pennsylvania. Rayco's testers, mostly college students, earn at least $10 per call. Usually the problem can be easily remedied, perhaps by turning the mattress over or lubricating the box spring. After three years on the job, the Yurses earn $100,000 annually and are trying to recruit enough modern-day Li'l Abners to take the business nationwide...
...hijacking, to safety in Tunisia. North helped plan the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada and last April's Libyan air raid. It was not surprising that North turned up in Cyprus last week just when Released Hostage David Jacobsen arrived there. "Oliver North is the prototype of the modern American hero," says a friend and colleague. "Wherever and whenever Americans are in trouble, sooner or later you will see him at the scene...
...says modern music has to be unpleasant? As the 20th century winds down, the joyous, freewheeling eclecticism that has long marked American music is flourishing more strongly than ever. Some challenging releases prove the point...
...modern-day New York City, the show centers around Robert (Ted Stimpson), a middle-aged man, unmarried but with many married friends. He goes from couple to couple getting glimpses of married life and a lot of advice on the pleasures or, just as often, the imperfections of marriage. He is desperate to understand his friends' affinity for marriage, and his efforts are made even more difficult because these couplings run the gamut, from the constantly battling spouses to the loving couple who get a divorce in order to save their relationship...
This year the department offered junior tutorials for the first time, but the two newly-created classes probably will be discontinued after this year, students said. They requested tutorials which unified topics discussed in modern history and government courses, rather than tutorials just covering Russia before its 1917 revolution...