Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry as a whole is far from going broke. Overall profits are expected to rise about 4% this year, to $4.9 billion. But some companies are being hit much harder than others. Among those hurting are General Dynamics (the No. 2 defense supplier, with Government contract awards of $7 billion in fiscal 1987), Grumman (No. 10 with $3.4 billion) and Northrop (No. 23 with $1.1 billion...
...script, by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, has McClane, a New York City detective, going to the Los Angeles office Christmas party of his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) in hopes of a reconciliation. Because the bash is taking place on a high floor of a high- rise, the revelers are easily sealed off from outside aid by an invading terrorist gang. The thugs miss McClane, who is in the john when they strike, so he is free to convert himself into a loose cannon, rolling through the mostly deserted building, eliminating the gang...
...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 the South, organizing the struggle, are now in City Hall: these days, they travel the world, organizing high-rise office building projects...
...RISE AND FALL OF A MORAL MANAGER...
...what you will, complain as you wish -- and it usually gives rise to plenty of speech and complaint -- the Venice Biennale is always fun to visit. It also has an edge on all other festivals of contemporary art, like the more didactic Documenta at Kassel, West Germany. For when you have done the central show in the Italian pavilion in the public gardens, and sampled all the national pavilions from the U.S.'s to Yugoslavia's, and sated whatever appetite you may have for the installation pieces of Aperto 88, the section for artists under 40 that stretches like...