Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Corporations that shuffle male executives from city to city are running into stiff resistance from the two-career family. Sometimes the wife of an employee being transferred is unwilling to give up her rewarding job. In other cases, the couple fears that it will be forced to scale back a two-paycheck life-style because the wife may be unable to find comparable work in the new city...
...page, mimeographed tip sheet for 45?. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob of Vaseline on the mechanism"). With 250,000 copies of the cubist's book in print, a Penguin executive marvels: "It's the biggest, runaway, immediate success we have had since we published Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback...
Rejected by the University of Wisconsin, he went to the University of Pittsburgh, "because of the coach." But outside of New England, the collegiate lightweight found the competition too stiff. After a dispiriting year, he left for the University of New Hampshire at Durham, only ten miles from Exeter. "I felt that I had not got anywhere," he says. In fact, he had come to the right place. The English faculty included a young Southern novelist named John Yount (Wolf at the Door, The Trapper's Last Shot), who told the restless student with the broad shoulders and burning...
...familiar in the darkening afternoon-newspaper market. Once Philadelphia's leading daily, the Bulletin suffered a steep circulation decline (down from 634,000 to 412,000 since 1970). The paper has held on to only 32% of the area's advertising linage in the face of stiff competition from the morning Inquirer (circ. 429,000), two smaller dailies and 24 suburban papers. Says one Philadelphia ad agency executive: "The Bulletin is thought of as being the second paper. If you want the middleclass, upper-income reader, you go to the Inquirer...
...Reagan Administration had hoped to free the CIA from controversy, stiff restrictions and stern oversight. Instead, the agency is saddled with a director whose every major move now seems likely to be carefully scrutinized and with morale problems resulting from its own internecine plotting. Getting back to its real work, the mission of forewarning the U.S. of its enemies abroad, may not come easily. -By Ed Magnuson...