Word: nets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business is a vital U.S. industry, one of America's strongest competitors against foreign economic rivals. Hollywood, despite its native excess and extravagance, will reap an estimated $8 billion from U.S. box-office and home-videocassette revenues this year. All told, the entertainment business ranks as the second largest net U.S. exporter, after the aerospace industry...
These are the good vibrations of August: soak up some rays on the beach, sip a brew or two and slap a volleyball over a net. A few years ago, Los Angeles beach boys thought it was cool if they were given a couple of six-packs for winning a beach-volleyball tournament. But times have changed. Last year Sinjin Smith, 32, beach-volleyball's top professional, earned nearly $135,000 for a season of bumping, setting and spiking out there on the sand, and he may do even better this year. Predicts Christopher Marlowe, an ESPN sports commentator...
...heavier than the indoor one, mainly to counteract the effects of sea breezes. The object of both games is to make the ball hit the floor -- or sand -- on the opponent's side. Both sports are played in a 30-ft. by 60-ft. playing area and use a net that is 36 ft. wide and 8 ft. high. Outdoors and in, the first team to score 15 points wins...
...consists of cruising the local shopping mall, favors $64 pink L.A. Gear athletic shoes with Western-style, imitation-silver buckles. Arthur the accountant, who bicycles ten miles before picking up his calculator in the morning, wears TC Lite, Nike's $85 cycling model. His weekend tennis partner rushes the net in Reebok's $80 Italian-made Cosenza tennis shoes, with the brand name discreetly scrawled in the corner...
After the Cabinet sessions, Bush repairs to the Oval Office and widens his net. He often invites Darman or Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady along to go over this point or that; sometimes he turns it into a working lunch. Bush is soon on the telephone shopping the options around to his "sources" on Capitol Hill: Senator Robert Dole on political matters, Ohio Congressman Willis Gradison on health care and economic matters, Tennessee Republican Don Sundquist on tax questions. Following the May Cabinet debates over which countries to name as unfair traders under the new "Super 301" section...