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...fashioned packaging is getting sharper; Jerry Jones, operations vice president at Keystone, west of Denver, offers discount lift tickets in supermarkets, trolls for new skiers with promotions aimed at Hispanics, and provides low air-fare deals with airlines ($49 for a one-way Minneapolis-to-Denver ticket) by absorbing the discounts at other concessions. Keystone - lifts, lodges and all - is owned and operated by one company (Ralston Purina, oddly enough, best known for animal feed). Thus Jones is in a much better position to optimize profits than Aspen Skiing Co., which owns lifts but not hotels and restaurants at nearby...
Violence in the Caribbean Basin and the Middle East brought the superpower confrontation into still sharper focus. The invasion of Grenada, Reagan claimed, prevented Marxists from turning that island into a Soviet-Cuban colony. Elsewhere in the region, however, no such quick or decisive victory for Administration policy seemed in sight. U.S. aid to the conservative government of El Salvador in its fight against a leftist insurrection, and to the contra rebels battling the Marxist-led government of Nicaragua, did little more than sustain grim guerrilla wars. Just as the U.S. did after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...future: sharper sound, better production, more finesse with image and story, more time as performers move away from the clip to the album-length format. All these are easy enough to predict, with certainty. But it is not easy to see where this will end. Indeed, there is the strong sense it may not end at all, that the forms will keep mutating, that the big screen and the small will shape, share and shift sizes, and that music will be the common ground...
There are several reasons cited for the prison-population surge, but rising crime is not one of them. The national crime rate began dropping two years ago, and last year it fell by 3% from the previous year. In many sections of the country there has been an even sharper decline over the past two years. One possible explanation for the overcrowded cells, criminologists say, is a time warp in the criminal careers of the baby-boom generation: only in the past few years have the criminal records of offenders born in the decade after World War II grown long...
Currier and Timothy Jerome, both veterans of an earlier Tomfoolery production by Wasington's Arena Stage Company, stand out in the small three man, one woman cast. The most avid fans will notice that Lehrer's own recorded performances are sharper and better paced than the foursome's delivery, but, after all, he wrote them as a solo act with only himself in mind...