Word: spawning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's end the producers promise another episode: Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League. Is it possible that this wild bronc ride of a movie can be popular enough to spawn a sequel? Watch the grosses, and the skies. -By Richard Corliss
...Virginia capes, only 30 miles wide at its broadest point, the Chesapeake has long been a source of almost overwhelming natural abundance. Geese, black ducks, mallard, teal and widgeon have darkened the skies over the bay and fattened themselves in its marshes. Striped bass, shad and herring spawn in its shallow bays. Oysters, clams and the succulent Atlantic blue crab provide the bay's hardy watermen with a livelihood and gourmets with seafood delights...
When TIME first appeared on newsstands in March 1923, not even the brash, energetic 24-year-olds who had co-founded the magazine, Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden, could have predicted that it would spawn one of the world's largest communications empires. As Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald has noted, "Not many institutions launched 60 years ago have survived, thrived and become part of folklore...
...Tensions spawn new violence
...problem still faces the industry: home taping. A report by Warner Communications estimates that a million-selling record will spawn about 450,000 homemade copies. Overall, the industry figures that it loses $1 billion in sales annually to home tapers. A bill in Congress that would put a royalty fee on tape and recorder sales is being held up, pending a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Sony Betamax case on the home videotaping of television programs...