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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...video-games and a year ago still had 80% of that exploding market is getting zapped. Last month another 225 workers were laid off, to add to the 1,700 furloughed earlier this year when some production was moved to overseas plants. Because of Atari's woes, its parent company, Warner Communications, lost $18.9 million during the first three months of 1983, and Warner Chairman Steven Ross, 55, says an even bigger loss is coming in the second quarter. The company's stock, which climbed to 63 last year, is now hovering around...
...achievements. She grew up in Encino, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, reading a lot of science fiction as well as Nancy Drew and James Bond. Her father Dale taught political science at Santa Monica College; her mother Joyce stayed home with Sally and her younger sister Karen. Neither parent pushed her in any particular direction, "except to make sure I studied and brought home the right kind of grades...
Doing double duty as speaker and proud parent or uncle at no fewer than three commencements last week, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 51, could not have been more in evidence if he were running for President-or head of the P.T.A. He returned to his alma mater, the Fessenden School in West Newton, Mass., where his youngest son, Patrick, 15, was graduating from the ninth grade. Next came Brown University for the graduation of Nephew John F. Kennedy Jr., 22. But it was last week's graduation of Daughter Kara, 23, from Tufts University that created an unusual family...
...moot point. A single event can cause smaller changes that touch every aspect of existence. Divorce, for example, "is not an isolated event," observes U.C.S.F. Psychiatrist Leonard Pearlin. "It is accompanied by some social isolation, a reduction in income and sometimes the problems of being a single parent. These become the chronic strains of life...
...voluntary fingerprinting of youngsters and adults. The FBI, which has many of those earlier records, says the prints have helped identify victims of fires, airplane crashes and crimes. Few believe, however, that the present print wave will deter many kidnapers or help locate many missing children. Still, for frightened parents it satisfies the need to do something. Says Martha Carter, whose son and two daughters had their prints taken in a Dallas suburb in April: "We mark all our silver. We might as well have some way to identify our children." Then she adds the prayer of every parent with...