Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Merchandising computer lists of bad-risk clients has spread to other fields. Chicago-based Docketsearch Network Corp. has compiled the names of 2.2 million Americans who have filed medical-malpractice, product-liability or personal-injury lawsuits. Doctors who subscribe to its $150-a-year Physician's Alert service can call a special toll-free number, give a prospective patient's name, and within 25 seconds find out if the individual has a penchant for filing lawsuits and ought to be handled with care. This summer Docketsearch plans to expand its listings to include records of bankruptcies, tax liens and workers...
...bring in most of the ones that are. Pay- cable executives defend their right to charge dish owners for picking up their channels. Subscription fees are what defray the cost of programming, they argue, and it is only fair that dish owners ante up too. "In order for this product to exist, it has to be paid for by those who use it," says Duncan Murray, a vice president of the Disney Channel...
...place in the agency rankings. BBDO has been on a roll. It won top awards last year for its Pepsi ads. Last week Pepsi signed one of its most celebrated pitchmen, Singer Michael Jackson, to a new $10 million three-year contract, the largest such deal for a single product in advertising history...
However, that tune aside, theatergoers who expect a traditional musical, complete with happy-ever-after ending and rousing final chorus, should beware. Pippin is a true product of the anxiety-ridden '70s, and its conclusion offers no false hopes...
...wandering would-be writer. He cheerily acknowledges that he knows no Spanish and thus has not even read the flyers they handed out. It hardly matters, he explains, because he knew what was meant--sort of. In fact, his politics are so ill formed, so much a product of simple adolescent rebellion, that he might have endorsed any radical cause. His alternately amused and annoyed companion is, it turns out, the author of the leaflets, an Oxbridge-educated scion of a prominent family who has joined the opposition. He admits that his people are ignorant, that his country does...