Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unemployment. After being stuck at 7.3% for six months, the jobless rate dropped to 7% in August. The fall in black teenage unemployment, from about 40% to 35%, was particularly encouraging. Much of the improvement, though, came because many teenagers left the labor force at the end of the summer to go back to school...
...booty, assuming that it can document having paid out a given amount in claims. Grimm maintains that because his expeditions had narrowed the search and his data was given to Ballard, he is at least partly responsible for the discovery. He plans to launch a salvage operation next summer. "I don't see any objection to diving down there," he says. "I'd sure love to drink a bottle of that wine...
...This summer the former doormat network found itself in a record hot streak: 14 consecutive weeks as No. 1. But Tinker cautions, "That's not to be confused with winning in the fall, when the new season starts, but it's a lot better to win 14 than to lose 14. It suggests that nothing has come off our fastball lately. To fall back in the new season, we'd have to have another of our historic collapses. And I just don't see it." If momentum means as much to a network's success as it does...
...prime-time competition, which promises to be the tightest in years, NBC has lured the executive producer of Back to the Future, Steven Spielberg, to mastermind a suspense anthology series called Amazing Stories. With Hollywood's alltime hitmaker anchoring the Sunday night lineup, and with a flock of summer comers, Tinker figures that "this fall may be the time when NBC blows right by everybody." Tartikoff seems energized by the thrill of the chase. "In the past," he says, "every time a show bit the dust, you figured you'd be joining it. This kind of pressure is easier...
Last year, Swedish Prime minister Olaf Palme lectured at Harvard, but declined to accept his $5000 honorarium. Four months later his son received a scholarship at the Kennedy School for approximately $5000. This seemingly obscure data caused a major furor in Sweden this summer as members of the Swedish news media charged the Prime Minister had committed tax fraud by backhandedly trying to secure the scholarship for his son. Opponents of Palme charged that by refusing a highly taxable fee for the speech, he intended to defer the money for a tax-free study grant for his son. Both Palme...