Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Wild Week: How weird was last weekend? Neither Lenkaitis nor Bruins split end Rodd Torbert--who also entered the Brown record books with 156 yards receiving, 11 receptions in the game and 62 receptions in a season--received Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors. Not even close...
...this is a matter of record -- indeed, of rock mythology -- and needs some freshening up for contemporary consumption. A.E. Hotchner, whose previous forays into biography have included volumes about Ernest Hemingway, Doris Day and Sophia Loren, is clearly no rock fan. He dismisses Jagger as "a ruler with no queen, no jester, no kingdom, just an egocentric bitch king with a neon scepter sitting on a hollow throne." But Hotchner does display a certain amount of commercial calculation, no doubt having sized up the sales receipts of rock butcher Albert Goldman's biographies of Elvis and John Lennon...
...season. A combination of forces is to blame: the weak U.S. dollar, an April frost in France's Champagne region and an effort by vintners to increase profits. During the past decade, French champagne producers pitched their product to the masses and succeeded so well that sales hit a record 250 million bottles last year, up 75% since 1982. Thinking they had priced the bubbly too cheaply, vintners are raising wholesale prices 20% or more. But some champagne makers fear that the trend may price French brands out of the party market, since consumers can turn to new Californian...
...fill the empty spaces. The average American metropolitan area faces a 20% office vacancy rate. The average is closer to 30% in some cities, including New Haven, Conn.; Phoenix; Dallas; and San Antonio. Commercial- mortgage delinquencies are running 25% ahead of last year and are fast approaching the record...
...turned out, crusading against military dictatorship was far easier than running a government. In 20 months Bhutto's administration accomplished little besides developing a reputation for corruption, antagonizing the powerful army leadership and proving incapable of ending ethnic conflict in her home province of Sind. Citing parts of that record, the President dissolved her government in August and called for fresh elections...