Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past four to five weeks we've been working with some very greedy concert promoters," Kim said, explaining his difficulties attracting the B-52s. "The concert business changes on a daily basis...
...estimated 4 million people, from young professionals to energetic grandparents, have joined the climbing generation, an increase of more than 40% since the end of 1988. In many health clubs, stair-climbing machines are more popular than stationary bicycles, and they threaten to make treadmills a thing of the past...
...growing vogue for stair climbing has been made possible by the development of new and better machines. They come in a dozen different models, including several home versions, that are easier to use and much more widely available than earlier devices. Over the past year, many health clubs have doubled the number of machines for their members. Even so, supply has badly trailed demand. In some places club managers strictly enforce time limits to keep people from fighting over the machines. Those tired of the health-club hassle can buy home machines for much less than...
...Berlin commercials are among an outpouring of ads in which Western businesses seem to be welcoming Eastern Europe into the capitalist world. A Shearson Lehman Hutton commercial shows Slavic women wearing U.S. running shoes and a teenager riding a skateboard past a hammer-and-sickle sculpture. The tactics have even been adopted by the other side: one of the products to extol improved East-West relations in its ads is Stolichnaya, the Russian vodka...
...Blue plans to eliminate 10,000 jobs from its U.S. payroll of 216,000, mostly through attrition and early retirement. IBM has already eliminated 20,000 jobs during the past two years by the same means. The company will also spend as much as $4 billion in a stock repurchase to boost its sagging share price. Some industry analysts predict more cuts as IBM shifts its emphasis to the smaller and more flexible computer systems offered by its rivals...