Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swimwear business, manufacturers often survive about as long as a sand castle on the beach. Gottex, though, has made money for the past 15 years, and in 1984 it earned $4 million before taxes. It has prospered with a simple formula: sell sexy bathing suits and stake out the fashion end of the market...
...Broadway's The Real Thing. This year for a topper, Close, 37, is trying two of each. The Connecticut-born actress opens this week in an off-Broadway play, Childhood, and recently did an off-off-Broadway performance of Arthur Honegger's oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake. At the same time, she has two movies in the can: The Jagged Edge, a courtroom drama, and Maxie, a romantic comedy about a 1920s actress whose spirit materializes in the present. "I love doing comedy," enthuses Close, "and I love dressing up." But given the choice, as she has been...
...largest carrier in the U.S., United faced its first pilots' strike since 1951. The issue that divides the airline and the people in the cockpit goes beyond a dispute over salaries or fringe benefits. At stake is a so- called two-tier wage system that would put new employees on a different pay scale from present ones. Under the United proposal, the starting salary for new pilots would drop from $22,452 to $21,600. In addition, newly hired pilots would remain on lower pay scales for the roughly 20 years that it takes to reach the rank of captain...
Broadway, to its peril, has increasingly gone the way of the movies: it has become a business of megahits and instant flops, of shows that either stake a claim on immortality ("Now and forever" the Cats slogan boasts) or die within days. It costs so much to keep a play running--from $80,000 to $150,000 a week, not counting TV advertising--that unless the reviews are raves or a large advance sale provides a cushion, skittish investors often decide to cut their losses by closing worthy shows right away rather than struggling to survive and recoup...
...reports, Murdoch gets along with Davis splendidly, but that may be because they apparently have left the running of Fox to Diller. Now that Murdoch has substantially increased his stake in the TV game, he may be more eager to help run the show. After all, Rupert Murdoch feels strongly enough about this latest venture to consider forsaking his Australian citizenship. Television and newspaper historians, take note: March 28, 1985, may, in retrospect, be the day that 20th Century-Murdoch was born...