Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scott, who is black, is a solid refutation of the widely held notion that feminism is strictly a white, middle-class issue. That remains a common enough criticism, as if the whole movement could be bundled up in a Volvo station wagon and sent off for a spin into irrelevancy. In fact, minority women may still be more concerned with problems of employment and discrimination than with the comparatively rarefied legalities of a constitutional amendment. But even their priority issues, in the words of former NOW President Aileen Hernandez, "flow out of the ERA." Adds Ruth Mandel, director...
...help to explain why many highflying 1960s conglomerates such as Litton Industries, LTV and RCA later stumbled. By swallowing up companies with widely different cultures, some conglomerate leviathans all but invited interoffice quarreling and management disputes. In many cases the only way to resolve such problems has been to spin the acquired companies off, sometimes at a painful loss...
...appear on grocery items, magazines and other goods. The wand reads the codes, and the unit makes the appropriate sounds. The machine can also sing, bark or even say "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Texas Instruments this year will publish at least eight coded books, including Stranded E.T.'s Adventure, a spin-off from the new Steven Spielberg movie. The Magic Wand costs $120 and each book...
...largest securities dealers, including Goldman, Sachs & Co., First Boston Corp. and Salomon Bros., are the dominant traders in the $700 billion market. As interest rates have gyrated in this market in recent years, those dealings have become attractive to other firms. Last February, for example, Drysdale, a $5 million spin-off of the 92-year-old Drysdale Securities Corp. brokerage house, opened its doors...
...high rollers in the Great Entertainment Sweepstakes, well versed in the arts of spin-off and tie-in, have created a devious form of autobiography: they hitch their histories to their hits. The follow-ups are often more compelling than the blockbusters. The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions, for example, revealed a talented and sensitive Mario Puzo far more than it explored his Mafia megaseller. Texas Writer and Journalist Larry L. King extends this technique in his seventh and best book. At street level, he hilariously and venomously chronicles The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas-from 1974 Playboy magazine piece...