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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most measures, CR is thriving as never before. Between 1990 and 1993, its monthly circulation ballooned from 3.8 million to 5 million. Although that figure has remained flat since then, CR estimates its total readership, including pass-along and library copies, at 19 million. Consumers Union, the magazine's parent organization, operates on an annual budget of $133 million, most of which is raised through subscriptions and book sales. And in 1990, aware that its devoted audience was getting older (median age: 42), CR revitalized another magazine devoted to young people into Zillions: Consumer Reports for Kids, which comes...
...publicity rankles the people at Universal and MCA, its corporate parent. MCA boss Sidney J. Sheinberg, who is concerned by a tone in the press he calls "Hard Copy journalism," claims that the Journal story is "unfair, irresponsible and in a great number of places inaccurate." The film's producer, Charles Gordon, who has spent months undersea and under siege, says the no-toilet story is "insane. We had bathrooms on boats out on the water, two feet away from the trimaran where the scenes were shot. When I read stuff like this, it drives me crazy...
Other businessmen, many of them cronies of Perez's or supporters of his Accion Democratica party, followed suit by taking over banks or starting new ones. In some cases the new banks were merely divisions of larger industrial or financial groups, which meant that when the parent companies were strapped for money, they frequently turned to their in-house banks for loans. According to government and congressional investigators, hundreds of other loans went to relatives and friends of bank managers and directors, as well as to real-estate operators who had the appropriate political connections. Laissez-faire took...
According to the report, there are 12.1 child care centers per 1000 children in upper middle-class neighborhoods, compared to 8.3 in welfare neighborhoods and a mere 7.4 in neighborhoods with a high concentration of single-parent families...
...could any parent hire a man who has gained worldwide recognition for his unruly and obnoxious behavior? One word answers the question: fame...