Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ever wonder how much Americans spend on munching hot dogs at football games or buying ski equipment for a winter jaunt? With the aid of the WEFA econometrics firm, a new Times Mirror magazine called Sports inc.: the Sports Business Weekly has compiled a gross national sports product (GNSP). The New York City- based magazine says Americans last year sank $47.25 billion, or more than 1% of total GNP, into sports. That puts sports just below the $49.5 billion motor vehicles industry but well ahead of the $38.9 billion U.S. petroleum and coal business. The GNSP includes estimates of spending...
...harrowing death of his three-year-old daughter Robin from leukemia in 1953. But when it comes time to sum up what this tragedy meant to him, all Bush chooses to offer is the flat observation, "To this day, like every parent who has ever lost a child, we wonder why." One mentions this incident not to fault Bush but to highlight the difficulties in trying to assess the meaning of life experiences. No one can write about Bob Dole without discussing his withered right arm and the three years he spent in military hospitals recovering from his war wounds...
...year are expected to grow a meager 3.4%, compared with an average of nearly 6% over the past three years. The price of some toy stocks tumbled more than 40% in October, further than the shares of any other industry. Such leading firms as Mattel, Coleco and Worlds of Wonder all posted larger losses than usual in the normally slow first half of the year...
...Worlds of Wonder, in particular, the next four weeks may determine whether the company survives. The fledgling firm, founded in 1985 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend on the strength of two blockbuster toys: Teddy Ruxpin, the personable talking bear that debuted in 1985, and last year's Lazer Tag ray-gun game. The company, soon known aptly enough as WOW, chalked up earnings of $18.6 million on sales of $327 million during its past fiscal year, making it one of the fastest-growing new manufacturing concerns in history. But in the view of industry analysts, the company expanded...
There's no question that the plays, several of which were wonderfully done, are worthy of student production. But it's fair to wonder at their selection for the Ex while plays of the sort the theater is funded by Harvard to nurture must be produced in the nooks and crannies of the houses...