Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...never thought Simon and Garfunkel was going to break up," Garfunkel says. "We just thought we'd take a break from each other." "Going out solo was my decision," Simon says now. "But I was nervous about it." The record company had a case of the corporate faints: Simon was busting up an act whose last record had sold 10 million copies. But the boys were having problems. Garfunkel was getting absorbed in acting, while Paul was taking his first turns down various lightly charted musical byways. "There was stuff I wanted to do anyway that Artie wouldn't have...
Seldom has a warning been so baldly ignored. Back in 1926 the nonprofit College Board introduced the Scholastic Aptitude Test with a cautionary observation: "This additional test," said the board, "should be regarded merely as a supplementary record. To place too great an emphasis on test scores is as dangerous as the failure properly to evaluate a score...
...Syrian and Western forces would face another serious obstacle: the Syrians are armed mostly with Soviet hardware. As a radical Arab state standing shoulder to shoulder with the conservative royalty of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Syria's greatest value is political. "If they never fire a shot," says Jeffrey Record, a Washington military analyst, "they are worth their weight in gold." But the idea of an alliance with the U.S. grates on many in Syria, and the official press is protesting increased American arms shipments to Israel...
...Caught between rising fuel costs and falling traffic, the industry is suffering record losses. A bareknuckled battle at New York City's Daily News may set the tone of labor struggles...
...flurry of financial blows has knocked the stuffing out of an industry that made a record $1.7 billion in profits in 1988. After a wrenching consolidation during the '80s that forced over 200 carriers to merge or disappear, the few remaining major companies are about to undergo another shake-out. Already wobbling badly, a couple of the weakest ones -- Pan Am and Eastern -- may disappear. Others, like TWA and Continental, may be forced to merge with stronger partners or shrink down to a more manageable size...