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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...autograph seekers are innocents. A collector in England nearly kept sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner from a starting line last season. "I told him I would give him an autograph after the race," she said, "but he grabbed hold of me and wouldn't let go." Reggie Jackson often conducted debates of this kind with his public, including a beery brawl in Milwaukee that escalated when a shredded Jackson autograph got sprinkled on his french fries...
...travel-agency business has grown heavily dependent on reservation systems and the airlines that own them, often at the expense of carriers without their own computers. Nearly 87% of all flights are now booked through the carriers with computerized networks, compared with 61% in 1983. The most dominant system is American's SABRE (an acronym for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment), used by 14,000 agencies to keep up with some 45 million different fares at 281 airlines. United's Apollo, the second largest, is used by 10,000 agencies. Last year the SABRE system brought American profits...
...than 8.5% last week. Investors daunted by the $10,000 minimum-purchase requirement for T-bills can buy longer-term Treasury notes and bonds in face amounts of $1,000 and $5,000. Such securities mature in two to 30 years and can pay more than 9% interest, which often exceeds the rates paid by bank certificates of deposit...
...radio call-in shows. Such programs, of course, have long served as a sort of national party line, a place where average citizens can rant, in blissful anonymity, about everything from the local baseball team's losing streak to the Bush Administration's arms policy. The hosts are often loud and abrasive, with an opinion for every issue and a put-down for every adversary. But in the past few months, a clutch of conversationalists has crossed the line from simply mouthing off to orchestrating nationwide political protests...
...current radio activism also has elements of a Meet John Doe nightmare. The hosts have unique access to large constituencies, yet they often seem motivated as much by ratings as by the public weal: political protest sells. In their inflammatory zeal, moreover, they tend to offer simplistic, emotionally satisfying remedies for complex problems. "It's a desperate attempt to get ratings," says Michael Jackson, the longtime ABC TalkRadio host. "Rather than tackling an issue from many angles, ((the activist hosts)) would sooner be the little boys with the bugles leading the charge...