Word: sales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Years of Photojournalism is a first for TIME: a single-topic, single- advertiser issue that is being sent free of charge to all 4.3 million subscribers. (The issue will also be on sale at retail locations for the next month.) The topic is one that TIME has helped shape during much of its 66-year history -- especially in the past decade, when the magazine became a leading force in color news photography. The single advertiser is Kodak, another organization that has long been a major factor in photojournalism...
America's retailers have precious little to cheer about these days. Many of the best-known U.S. department-store chains are up for sale. Garment sales have been stagnant, and profits are squeezed. But then there is Donna Karan, a women's-clothing designer whose creations send department-store executives into fits of giddy optimism. The Queen of Seventh Avenue, as the fashion press calls her, Karan is chief executive officer and head designer of a five-year- old company that expects to rake in $115 million in revenues this year. Her sportswear line arrived in stores eight months...
...roof." But Burundi did not keep its promise to get out of the business; instead it accumulated another 90 tons. Says Joe Yovino, former head of the CITES ivory unit: "No question, we got snookered." Yet four months ago, the CITES secretariat agreed to arrange for the sale of about 28 tons that had been seized by Burundi authorities. Jacques Berney, the deputy secretary-general of CITES, says he is convinced that the new Burundi government, which came to power in a 1987 coup, is sincere about keeping the agreement to halt additional ivory imports...
...efforts by both sides reached a frenzied level. The vote in Lausanne will not be unanimous, and any prohibition of ivory trading will be at best a patchwork. As long as southern African nations such as Zimbabwe and Botswana refuse to accept the ban, ivory will be available for sale...
...sale will virtually wipe out Zenith's debt and enable the company to invest in new technologies, including high-definition television. While HDTV is probably a decade away, Zenith is developing flatter, sharper TV screens that may keep the company -- and the U.S. -- in the race with Asian manufacturers...