Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated three-quarters of all minor-league clubs are running in the black, in contrast to one-quarter 15 years ago. One Triple A team, the Columbus Clippers, earned $665,000 last year. Of the twelve Class A teams in the Midwest League last year, eleven earned profits that averaged $30,000 a team. That may not sound like much, but some of the owners bought or started their teams for less than...
...joined the work force, the party calmed down and eventually had to move. From 1982 through 1985, Tupperware's sales dropped 13.3%, to $762 million. Then last year the company, based in Kissimmee, Fla., began staging its parties wherever working women might be found. Presto: sales in the first quarter of 1988 rose 18%, compared with the same period in 1987. Moreover, Tupperware's sales team, once composed entirely of housewives, is now 3% male and growing...
Such inner struggles are mostly beyond the ken of us middle-aged Walter Mittys, whose images are those of the grandstand and whose own diamond memories ended with youth-league ball more than a quarter-century ago. For all the cliches about baseball being a boy's game played by grown men, we watch and root with ardor because we sense the truth: what happens on the big league diamond is life magnified beyond mortal dimension. Who in his or her daily existence has an experience to equal the champagne-drenched euphoria of a championship team? How can the workaday...
...quarter-century later, Atlanta, it is said, has finally shaken off the dust of Georgia. What had been Forrest Street -- named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard of the original Ku Klux Klan -- is now named in memory of Ralph McGill, the anti-racist newspaperman who was once derided as Rastus McGill by people who now speak reverentially of his contribution to the community. The city's best-known monument is not a statue to the Confederate fallen but the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights activists who once used Atlanta's airports to travel...
...flashing on television screens around the world. Although the violence has been largely limited to the West Bank and Gaza, many potential tourists see a country clouded by tear gas and moral ambiguities and are choosing to stay away. Tourism since April is 24% lower than in the same quarter last year. Hundreds of charter flights have been scrubbed and the Nabucco extravaganza canceled; hotels stand half empty. If the trend continues, Israel could lose $300 million this year of the $1.5 billion it earns from tourism...