Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Detroit Pistons still had several working parts, but one ankle was overdue at the shop. Offensively anyway, he tottered admirably through the first half, when Detroit led by five points. But against a turned-up blast of James Worthy, the Pistons fell behind by 15 in the last quarter. They had to make their final run without Thomas, and nearly pulled it off. "At the end of the game," said the Lakers coach Pat Riley, "you were watching a great basketball team hold on. We were just holding...
Both manufacturers are aggressively pursuing sales in each other's markets. Beech claims that a quarter of the 50 orders it has received have come from European customers, while Piaggio says it will sell 60% of its planes in North and South America. By some estimates, fewer than 8,000 corporate aircraft are in use today worldwide, but the industry is coming out of a decade-long slump, and there may be a backlog of pent-up demand...
Paul Hawken knows his customers well. Of the new generation of gardeners, he says, "their parents had a quarter acre with a power mower and a hedge clipper. They have 600 sq. ft. behind a condo and 90 different kinds of plants in it." But he does not disdain those who crave his lovingly designed tools made of second-growth ash. "Serious gardeners are like serious writers, painters, dancers," he says. "For people who view gardening as a craft, buying the best tool they can get is absolutely essential...
...five achievement levels from simple arithmetic to algebra, are not all that tough. A typical base-level question: Which of these numbers is closest to 30? 20, 28, 34 or 40? A top-level question asks: Suppose you have ten coins and have at least one each of a quarter, a dime, a nickel and a penny. What is the least amount of money you could have? Kids who cannot handle such penny-ante stuff are undoubtedly in deep trouble...
...timing of the demands angered employees. The company's earnings more than doubled in 1986, rose 33% in 1987 to $407 million and increased at an annual rate of 77% in the first quarter of 1988. Nonetheless, IP contends that its return on investment lags behind much of the paper industry's. Warns Spokesman Richard White: "If we don't get all our costs in line, we'll end up like the shoe industry, another tombstone in Maine...