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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Even before the 1980 Olympics ended, the 1984 Games were causing controversy. Under strong U.S. pressure, the International Olympic Committee last week finally abandoned its plan to raise the American flag and play The Star-Spangled Banner at Sunday's closing ceremony. Instead the flag of the 1984 host city, Los Angeles, was substituted...
Typical of the suddenly idle worker of 1980 is Wilson Painter Jr., 31, a Pennsylvania apprentice machinist who was let go by U.S. Steel in May. A big-boned man with the look of a football guard, Painter tries not to dwell on the future. Instead, he spends his empty hours playing with his two children, helping his wife Kathy around the house, or ritualistically unpacking and cleaning the precision calipers, gauges and scales that lie neatly slotted in his tool chest. Painter was halfway through a program to become a journeyman machinist when he was laid off. Those tools...
...gifts are trying to circumvent Government regulations that limit competition among financial institutions. The Federal Reserve's Regulation Q has long kept a lid on interest rates that banks or savings and loans can pay. Banks have sometimes attempted to get around that law by giving lavish gifts instead of paying interest. One New York bank, for example, offered an $84,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow to anyone who would deposit $160,000 for eight years. But there were no takers...
Beverly Sills, on the transition from singing to running the New York City Opera company: "Now, instead of two vocal cords, I have to worry about...
...complexity, he would be perceived as a cartoon villain among prime time's standard retinue of sanctified simps. If Dallas did not offer the rarest of series commodities-narrative surprise and character change -the attempt on J.R.'s life would be no more than a gimmick, instead of the logical climax to a season of devilish intrigue...