Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Politicians may debate whether America, in the post-cold war era, will continue to hold center stage. But no one can doubt that it fills the world's screens -- cinema and television -- as well as its VCRs, bookshelves, record stores and CD players. The dominance is especially pronounced on movie marquees. In most foreign countries, the most popular films are from Hollywood: brain-bashing action epics from Schwarzenegger and Stallone, to be sure, but also fantasy romances like Pretty Woman and Ghost. If we make it, they want it -- and lately, if they are Japanese, they want...
...farther and deeper offshore," says Roger Abel, Conoco's general manager for production engineering. "The big easies have all been found." Shell is investing $1.3 billion to build and install a tension-leg platform some 411 km (255 miles) southeast of Houston that will retrieve oil from a world-record depth of 872 m (2,860 ft.). Called Auger, the giant is scheduled to begin producing from 32 wells in 1993. Shell has also drilled an exploratory well at a 2,300-m (7,500-ft.) depth, and Mobil and Chevron hold leases to search...
...seven hours." For this story, she got even less, pulling an all-nighter to meet a deadline. As TIME's Business editor for three years, Charles Alexander says he was "notorious for staying at work all night and grabbing a few hours of sleep in my office." His record: 78 hours on the job with 13 hours of intermittent naps. Today, as Sciences editor, Alexander enjoys more regular hours, but his new office still has a couch, just in case...
Many of the already battered retailers are howling about the growth of cut- rate competitors, who happen to include a number of their own suppliers. The 2,500 firms belonging to the National Shoe Retailers Association went on record against the proliferation of manufacturers' outlets; some are boycotting brands that have opened their own shops. "It's impossible to compete against them," complains association president William Boettge. For small stores, outlets are "making a tough business all the tougher," says John Cox, a recently retired shoe-shop owner in Lawrence, Kans., who saw his business drop more than 15% after...
...Touring is second nature to us, kind of automatic," explains Andrew Farriss, 30, the keyboardist and songwriter of the band. "We started off just playing in public, and our audience got bigger and bigger. Record companies in Australia had to sign us because our live-show following was bigger than some people's record sales." Adds Michael Hutchence, 30, who handles lyrics, lead vocals and sex-symbol assignments with equal panache: "We've toured a lot around the world for three or four years without a lot of success to tour on at first, because that...