Word: actualizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Residential consumers are not directly involved, since few have experienced actual supply interruptions to their homes. Only a handful have felt the need to switch away from gas. Nonetheless, state-imposed bans on making gas available in new construction have held down the number of residential users, and that is something that the Energy Department would also like changed. So confident has the department become about the availability of domestic gas that last week it rejected import applications for some 2 billion cu. ft. of liquefied natural gas a day from Algeria...
...attorneys and drones on for years. The quintessential Big Case is U.S. vs. International Business Machines Corp., an antitrust suit by the Government charging the company with monopolizing the computer industry. Before the parties went to trial, they deluged each other with 30 million pages of documents. The actual trial, now in its fourth year, has produced a transcript of more than 86,000 pages. Brought by the Government in 1969, the suit has dragged on so long that the opposing lawyers have argued over what to do should the judge, 68-year-old David Edelstein, die before...
...Hollywood keeps churning out '50s movies, almost guaranteed successes, which don't have much of any connection to the actual decade. Chubby Checker still plugs the hits he made 25 years ago, and the new Mickey Mouse Club has a whole new generation of Mousketeers on the march. There is something rather pathetic inherent in nostalgia--that yearning for the good old days that never really existed--and especially in the media-contrived instant nostalgia which is constantly being produced in this country. Things are hardly gone before they're immortalized, distilled and stereotyped. If that doesn't produce results...
Very few of Taiwan's inhabitants fear an actual invasion from the mainland. China currently lacks the landing craft and other military equipment for such a move. Taiwan's armed forces of 474,000 men, including a well-trained air force of 316 combat aircraft, 165 of them F-5A/E interceptors that it has built under U.S. license, would make a direct assault on the island extremely costly. Furthermore, the U.S. is maintaining the right to continue selling defensive weapons to Taiwan. Privately, however, the island's officials worry about the possibility of a Communist submarine...
...film was slow and difficult. The first scene called for the camera to swoop down on a Georgia swamp, where Kermit is discovered sitting on a log in the middle of a pond, playing a banjo. The decision had been made to try for the realism of actual photography, rather than to fake scenes with process shots. So a watertight tank was built, and into the tank went a small television camera and all 6 ft. 3 in. of Jim Henson. (Muppet performers often cannot see directly what their hands are doing or what the other Muppets...