Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friedan, who told her that she had got her statistics from the Small Business Administration. "When the SBA verified that women were in fact the most dynamic portion of the small- business community," says Whitaker, "I knew I was on to a good story." The result: this week's special report on women entrepreneurs, who these days are running everything from fashion conglomerates to asphalt-paving firms...
Staff Writer Janice Castro, who wrote TIME's special report, brought a family interest to the subject. "It never occurred to me that women couldn't succeed in business," says Castro, whose grandmother was running the office of a San Francisco chemical firm in 1914, when she was only 18. Castro's parents co-managed a small meat company. While in college, Castro dreamed of running her own business, but the journalist's notebook won out over the balance sheet...
Regular tinted sunglasses that protect the eye from visible light do not < necessarily screen out harmful rays. To stop UV light, lenses must be treated with a special pigment that absorbs the damaging rays. Eye specialists caution that untreated sunglasses may be worse than no sunglasses at all. Reason: without dark glasses, people squint and blink in the sun, minimizing the amount of UV light reaching...
...critics charge the labels are inadequate. ANSI divides sunglasses into three categories: fashion spectacles that shield eyes from only 70% of UV-B and less than 60% of UV-A; everyday eyewear that screens out 95% of UV-B and between 60% and 92% of UV-A; and special-purpose glasses that absorb almost 99% of ultraviolet rays...
WELL, while others who shelled out anywhere from $2000 for ringside seats in Atlantic City to $30 for special pay-per-view arrangements shook their heads in disgust after the 10-count ended, Haupt took a cue from P.T. Barnum. If Tyson could make $22 million and Spinks $13 million for 91 seconds of "boxing," then why can't Dan Haupt of Overland Park, Kansas, take a stab at the champ for $3.5 million...