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Walk for Hunger spokesperson Denise Goros said walkers recorded a record $3.5 million in pledges, which topped last year's effort by 35 percent. While Goros couldn't predict how much of the pledged money the organization would actually receive, she said they usually get 80 to 90 percent from sponsors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over 35,000 `Walk for Hunger' | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...links, is booming. Some 23 million golfers last year teed off at 13,626 courses in the U.S. -- up 30% from 1985. They spent $15.6 billion on equipment, clothes, fees, lessons and resort travel, with the average duffer shelling out $675 each year. Industry analysts predict that annual sales will double by the end of the next decade. The sport supports no fewer than four major magazines: Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, Golf World and the phenomenally successful Golf Illustrated, whose circulation has increased from 35,000 to 400,000 since 1985. "Golf," says Jay Mottola, executive director of the Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Seventh Day He Played | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...invited guests: young skinhead toughs whom Butler wants to recruit to his bigoted cause. A 21-year-old Californian identified himself as "Whiteman." At a press conference he defined the skinhead philosophy as "retaliation for all the years of being beaten down by other races." He went on to predict that "a new generation has to come. The skins are the next wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Idaho: Dearth of a Nation | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Above all, abortion activists predict that the struggle could lead to a seismic shift in American politics, becoming a constant factor in nearly every election and threatening to fracture both parties. Like civil rights and the Viet Nam War in the 1960s, abortion could be the great preoccupation of the 1990s. "It will be a battle for years and years and years," says Samuel Lee, executive director of Missouri Citizens for Life, which helped write the law at issue in the Webster case. "I don't think it's ever going to go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Life Is It? (Roe v. Wade) | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Some Wall Street experts predict painful new layoffs at many U.S. firms. "What the industry needs is a good housecleaning," says Lipper Analytical's Long, who argues that brokerages would need to dismiss 12,000 to 17,000 more employees to keep profits from sinking further. Other analysts expect a steady decline in the number of investment firms. Since the crash, membership on the New York Stock Exchange has fallen from 392 companies to 365, a decline of nearly 7%. The dropouts have either closed their doors or merged with stronger firms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roaring '80s Turn Grinding '90s | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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