Word: behind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says Lana, one of the few charter members of the company left on the set last week: "If we were to film what really has happened behind the cameras, no one would believe...
...brought an alarmed response from business associations and Chambers of Commerce. They held briefings and sent out thousands of letters informing executives about the program and recommending screening procedures to keep activists off payrolls. J. Edgar Hoover warned that union members would face "fanatic, anarchist revolutionaries" who have left behind them "a bitter wake of arson, vandalism, bombings and destruction across the nation" and who believe that "unions should be destroyed, along with the Government, the military, private industry and law enforcement." New York's Commerce and Industry Association held a meeting, closed to outsiders, at which 250 executives...
Most important of all is business's spending on new plant and equipment, which is the major thrust behind the 1969 inflation. Early in the year companies planned to spend some $73 billion on new facilities, or 14% more than last year. But tight money and prospects of less exuberant demand have begun to change boardroom thinking. The Business Council expects that spending will increase only 11% this year and probably much less in 1970. Robert Tyson, U.S. Steel's Finance Committee chairman, concedes that the scarcity of credit may force cutbacks...
...economy to a difficult stage of decision. As TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Ed Reingold reports, more and more Japanese leaders realize that their economy has to make the jarring transition from super-precocious adolescence to maturity. At home, Japanese consumers complain that they have been left behind in the scramble for export markets, and they are clamoring for more of the rewards of industrial expansion. Abroad, many of Japan's best trading partners are becoming increasingly impatient with the way that its businessmen flood the world with exports while keeping their own economy insulated from foreign goods...
...that Babel's life was brief. In 1939, after nearly a decade of playing the quiet and lucky mouse to Stalin's cat, the 44-year-old writer was snatched off to Moscow's Lubyanka prison and never heard from again. As the prison gates closed behind him, he was heard to utter, with a sly smile, "I was not given time to finish...