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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold chains that make him look, according to a standing band joke, like "a killer pimp." He worked on a Chrysler assembly line for eleven years; when he sings, his voice is all rough edges, Wilson Pickett-style, that soar and spar. Sir Harry Bowens may still be unknown to Burke's Peerage (relax, guys: his knighthood is self- imposed), but fans of the O'Jays will recognize the cool, platinum elegance of his phrasing. He sang with the O'Jays for seven years, but no musical grounding adequately prepared him for his first meeting with the Was boys...
...former concert-booking agent, de Passe started as Gordy's creative assistant when she was 21 and produced several hit records in her 13 years in the music division. Her masterstroke: persuading Gordy in 1968 to sign the Jackson Five, an unknown group starring nine-year-old singer Michael Jackson...
...during the past few years, several other sexually transmitted diseases are quietly spreading their own net of contagion. Some old scourges, like syphilis, are making comebacks, and more recently recognized infections, such as genital herpes and chlamydia, are moving swiftly through the population. The extent of the epidemics is unknown, since only a fraction of the cases are reported to health officials. Experts think at least 25 STDs strike millions each year, primarily teenagers and young adults...
...first major coup came in 1976, when he persuaded the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad to sell him for $10 million the dilapidated Commodore Hotel adjoining Grand Central Station. It was typical of the kind of deal that Trump now calls "my favorite art form." An unknown and unwealthy hustler of 30, he had to persuade some bankers to lend him $80 million (he did) and some politicians to give him a $120 million tax abatement (he did). It did not hurt that Fred Trump was a regular contributor to the Brooklyn Democratic machine, or that Governor Hugh Carey and Mayor...
...shores of this majestic body of crystal-clear water. The crescent-shaped lake holds 80% of the country's fresh water and 20% of the world's supply. Three-fourths of the lake's 2,500 fish and plant species, including the Baikal nerpa, a fresh-water seal, are unknown anywhere else in the world...