Word: placed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today is No. 1 in the morning-news ratings, and has been for nearly four years. Yet its margin over ABC's Good Morning America has been shrinking. For the past two weeks, Today has led by only 0.4 of a rating point, and it has fallen to second place in the key demographic group of women ages 25 to 54. "There were a lot of people who thought the show was a little stale," says an NBC executive, "and that maybe it's when you're on top that you should do something about...
Season to Taste Books (3,000; Chicago). To an out-of-towner, the shadow of Wrigley Field may seem an odd place to find one of the nation's best cookbook stores, but Season has scored in the now fashionable neighborhood with butcher-block decor and tomes on food and drink, including esoteric offerings such as one on Transylvanian cuisine. Everyone seems hungry for the stock. "Some people collect cookbooks as art," says co-owner Barry Bluestein. "Some see them as sociological studies of what people were eating in different times and places, and some just ask, 'Is this...
...local potter, fears that the mine is getting ready to swallow the town. First to disappear was the town swimming hole, a water-filled shaft left over from an earlier mining boom. "It's a crazy thing that's going on here," she exclaims. "I'm living in a place that may be gobbled up by a mine...
...Reagan Revolution's hands-off attitude persists in Washington, where governing by symbolism has taken the place of tough decision making on budget deficits, the drug scourge, failing schools and the urgent need to support the glimmerings of democracy in Eastern Europe. -- With big victories in Florida and on Capitol Hill, the pro-choice majority proves it is not so silent. -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s best friend writes a tattletale memoir...
...never believe you're in New York," says Irving Cohen. He and his wife Mary come in from suburban Long Island to visit their grandson and enjoy the place. For Nancy Marshall of Kearny, N.J., the scene is a revelation: "I went to school in this neighborhood 30 years ago, and none of this was here. It's so unexpected, so peaceful...