Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DAYS when big business was so much fun. All those pleasant corporate execs used to caper around the office in their pleasantly grey flannel suits, every now and then molesting the pleasantly available secretaries, and all the while running the engines of the American economy at full throttle. Adam Smith would no doubt have enjoyed it, and probably would have hypothesized some benevolent invisible hand to direct all that frisky lechery and banality toward a common good. At the very least, he would have appreciated the healthy, self-enforced chivalry of the times: martinis at dawn, and to the victor...
...Yale does have a shot at tying for the title, provided the Big Green lose to Princeton, which is about as likely as a draw play to Bill Weld...
NOWs are easier to understand, but they do not offer any great advantages over PATS. NOW accounts too are advantageous mainly to those who can maintain big balances, though the break-even point may be somewhat lower than with PATS. Under Citibank's plan, for instance, a depositor will earn 5% interest on the money he keeps in a NOW account and if he maintains a total balance of at least $3,000, pay no service fee. But if the combined balance drops below that, he must pay a charge...
Special, miniseries, big event: these are the most overused terms in television's absurd lexicon of hype. But in the 1978-79 season, when almost every prime-time show is labeled spectacular by the networks, one mini-series surely justifies the advance billing. That show is Roots: The Next Generations, ABC's sequel to the most popular TV entertainment of all time. When this 14-hour production airs over seven nights in early February, upwards of 100 million viewers may tune in to see if it is a worthy successor to the original Roots. ABC expects a huge...
...block proposed malls that would have competed with the redevelopment plans of Charleston, W. Va., and Duluth, Minn. The Government has also pitched in more directly, providing grants to over 100 cities in hope of helping downtown store owners. Meanwhile, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is encouraging big retailers like Sears, Roebuck to expand operations within the cities. This need not involve economic sacrifice. Such highly successful downtown malls as Houston's glossy enclosed Galleria, Boston's colorful new Faneuil Hall Marketplace and San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square restoration show an appreciation of both architectural...