Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maliciously defamatory. Finally, a 6 to 2 majority upheld most of Washington State's tough 1982 antipornography law, ruling that it could ban distribution of "lascivious" material. But the state went too far when it included material that merely "incites . . . lust," wrote Justice Byron White, because lust implies only "normal, healthy sexual desires." Last week's spate of decisions left the Justices with 31 more cases to resolve as they near adjournment for the summer vacation...
...United pilots agreed to return to work last week after a bitter month-long walkout that cut the airline's schedule to just 14% of its normal 1,550 flights...
...taste of the real thing was like tampering with motherhood, baseball and the flag. The new drink, they say, is nerdy and has none of the old Coke's snap. Executives at Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta say they get 1,500 calls a day, almost four times the normal volume. Most of the callers, says Coke, are "concerned." And how. "I hate the new stuff," says Sharlotte Donnelly, 36, an anthropologist in Cincinnati. "It's too sweet. It tastes like Pepsi." Says Wendy Koskela, 35, vice president of an insurance brokerage in San Francisco: "Real Coke had punch. This...
Coke officials say they are pleased by the early returns. In May, Coke sales shot up a sparkling 8% over the same month in 1984, double the normal growth rate. Some of the increase included sales of old Coke still on store shelves, but most of it was the new drink. That amounts to a lot of bubbles in a business in which every percentage-point increase in the market share adds $280 million in retail sales on a yearly basis. Coke claims its surveys show that 120 million Americans have tried the drink if only out of curiosity...
...phone rings in the little office on Sunset Strip. Arnow says that Jack Warner has seen Reagan's test and wants to sign him. Normal starting contract is for a few months. Ward asks for a year's deal, since Reagan is probably making $75 a week and can't give that kind of good money up to run back to California on short terms. O.K., agrees Arnow, a year at $200 a week. Ward wires the news to Des Moines. Reagan is near ecstasy. He pours out his heart in a two-page longhand letter to Ward. "Sometimes those...