Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student-proposed program that would assign undergraduates to act as informal advisers for freshmen moved closer to gaining University approval last week, as the dean of students provisionally granted it official status and the Freshmen Dean's Office agreed to fund two sets of its mailings...
Moreover, the study group recommended that Congress enact legislation suspending the equal opportunities provision of the Federal Communications Act, "requiring networks to release each week to their licensees twenty 30-second prime-time segments restricted for sale to political candidates during the campaign period," and permitting networks to deduct from gross income "the difference between the actual rates paid by political advertisers and the average commercial rates for comparable time charged during the campaign period...
...Service Committee approved a bill, but only after it had been substantially rewritten under pressure from lobbyists for Government employees. The committee cut back the incentive program to a two-year experiment and limited it to three agencies, to be designated by the Administration. It proposed amending the Hatch Act to permit federal employees to take an active role in partisan politics, a step opposed by Carter who called the committee's votes "very adverse...
Whoever does succeed Iacocca will have a tough act to follow. In 1964, Iacocca catapulted himself to prominence by doing much to design the Mustang and directing the marketing drive that made it the bestselling new car ever. He had been scheduled to offer some remarks last week at the press preview of the 1979 version, the Mustang III, but was dropped from the program. Ford is placing much hope on the car's radical restyling, with a Mercedes-like rear end and a long list of luxury options, to revive Mustang sales, which have sagged in the past...
...act play is laid in a spacious kitchen (handsomely designed by John Lee Beatty), part of the Stewarts' vacation home off the Connecticut coast, during a storm one September afternoon. The author's symbolistic handling of the hurricane and its eye is heavy-handed, and some of the interpolated humor falls flat. But she has managed to come up with some strong verbal images, and one remarkable long speech about a neurosurgeon's discovery of a worm in the brain...