Word: spates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is method to Babbit's apparent madness. He is in the process of honing a straight-talking image, something sure to play well after eight years of Reagan and the recent campaign of George "Read My Lips" Bush and his spate of media advisers. (This plain campaign style could help Rudy Giuliani, the well-known former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, become the city's next mayor...
Boeing's image has not been helped by the spate of mishaps involving its planes, even though the company has not been found responsible for any since the crash of a poorly repaired Japan Air Lines 747 in 1985. Experts give the company high marks for advising airlines of potential safety problems and ways to correct them. Says Paul Turk, vice president of Avmark Inc., a leading aviation consultant: "Boeing is taking a lot of hits because most of the older jets flying are Boeings. But the facts are that the industry, and Boeing specifically, is recognizing the problems...
...much money will viewers shell out for home entertainment? A spate of mega- events, from wrestling matches to big-name concerts, may provide the answer...
...Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine since 1983, and she spearheaded a $15 million fund-raising drive there. Years ago, quietly, Barbara befriended a woman at a Washington hospice and went to see her every week for several years until she died. She went to Atlanta during a spate of murders of children to comfort the grieving mothers. For more than 30 years, she has visited cancer wards at Christmastime to play with children -- her way of honoring Robin...
...ticket consumer items like refrigerators and automobiles has been increasing at a much lower rate. As a result, says Yuri Luzhkov, chairman of the state committee responsible for Moscow's food supply, "people are investing their new money in food" -- and, in the process, creating the current spate of product shortages. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based think tank, agrees that Soviet supply and demand has gone seriously out of kilter. "By allowing increased purchasing power and providing nothing more to spend it on, the authorities have created a mind- boggling situation," he says...