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...removal of officers before an investigation extraordinary, the Defense Secretary said this kind of reprimand would become "standard" for such excesses. A spokesman for Grumman Aerospace Corp., the defense contractor that made the ashtrays for the E-2C surveillance aircraft it also manufactures, explained the sky-high price tag: "We are not ashtray manufacturers." Grumman has offered the Navy a refund that will lower the price to $50 an ashtray, but Weinberger has better ideas for dealing with the inflated cost. He proposed, only half-jokingly, to substitute "old mayonnaise jars for ashtrays. We are not going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military: Money to Burn | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...luxurious Charles Square complex opened in March beside the equally plush University Place, gentrification crept further and further into Cambridge's traditionally blue collar neighborhoods. Penthouse condominiums in Charles Square and University Green reportedly sold for over $1 million, sending the price tag for one house on Mt. Auburn St. well above the million dollar mark...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: City Bitties | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

...About four years ago, I used to live in the East Village. I used to love hanging out at the Roxy with all the break dancers and graffiti artists and the deejays. Everybody had a tag name they would write on the wall like "Whiz Kid" or "Hi-Fi." The thing was to see how much you could "throw up" (get your name up) everywhere. It was a very territorial thing. One day I just thought of BOY TOY, and when I threw it up on a wall, everybody said they thought it was funny too. They understood the humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now: Madonna on Madonna | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Jane McHugh has earned the tag "Tact and Decorum", or "T&D" for short. "Jane has a habit of saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time--in a cute way," Wilson explains...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Myrtle, Fortuna, and Pigpen Make for a Good Time | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...shouts and screams are over. Murdoch and Davis agreed last week to buy the nation's largest independent television archipelago, with stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Dallas, Houston and Boston. The price tag is $2 billion, making the acquisition the second largest in broadcasting history. (First place belongs to the $3.5 billion takeover of ABC by Capital Cities Communications in March.) The new owners will immediately sell Metromedia's Boston outlet, WCVB-TV, to the Hearst Corp. for $450 million. Murdoch and Davis will end up with six stations that reach one out of every / five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: America's Newest Video Baron | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

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