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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country is reaching deeper than ever into the lives of Americans. Since 1980 the number of country radio stations has gone from 1,534 to about 2,500 nationwide. By one measure, country has become the nation's second most popular radio format, after adult contemporary. Country stations rank in first place in 45 of the top 100 radio markets, including Buffalo, Kansas City and Orlando. Without much fanfare, discos that used to play Top 40 tunes have been converting into country music clubs, where cowboy wannabes pull up in Hondas to dance the Slappin' Leather, the Tush Push...
...onto the '80s gravy train. Although Michigan voters have almost nothing in common with this walking Experiment in Living, the antinuclear former seminarian who has washed lepers with Mother Teresa in India and studied Zen with Buddhists in Japan is showing surprising appeal. As the campaign enters mid-stretch, rank-and-file union members, independents, rainbow-coalition minorities and educated, maverick Democrats are giving the former two-term California Governor a chance to build on his victories in Colorado and Nevada and a virtual tie in Maine...
...everyone in your blocking group to list the most popular houses in their choices in The Crimson poll. When the results are published, everyone else will change their choices to the second rank. Then you change yours to the first rank houses...
Although Bio 1 and Science B-29 have appeared on the top ten list in the past, both courses rank higher this semester than they did last spring. Bio 1 rose to fifth place from tenth, and Science B-29 to second from fifth...
...Back to the Future) have done episodes for HBO's Tales from the Crypt. John Sayles (Eight Men Out) created Shannon's Deal, a lawyer series for NBC, and Spielberg ventured into series TV several years ago with his fantasy anthology Amazing Stories. Yet many filmmakers of the first rank still regard TV as a second-class medium. The chief drawbacks: less time to work, less money to spend and more restrictions on style and subject matter...