Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is wrong is the bankable-star problem. This means that banks will not back a big film unless the star is someone even a banker has heard of. Thus, when you want to cast a black version of The Wizard of Oz, you do not hold an audition for beautiful teen-age black girls who can sing like crazy, though the possibilities of such an audition stagger the imagination. You sign up Diana Ross, who is beautiful, sings Like crazy, and is known to bankers from a career dating back to the early '60s, when...
...big question is whether the bill's conservation measures, which are much weaker than the President wanted, will enable the U.S. to cut oil imports. Two weeks ago, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger estimated that U.S. oil imports will rise 2 million bbl. per day by 1985, to around 10 million bbl., rather than drop 2.5 million bbl., as Carter had pledged. That prospect helped touch off another orgy of dollar selling abroad...
...Big chains put new zip into a fusty trade...
...These big companies operate with a cold efficiency that astounds the oldtime booksellers, who often take a warm proprietary interest in their wares. Highly computerized Dalton, which carries about 30,000 titles in each shop, assigns every book a number; when the book is sold the number is entered through the cash register into a computer, which produces a weekly report on what every store in the chain has sold. Slow-moving titles are quickly culled. Most chains concentrate almost exclusively on bestsellers-novels, selfhelp, biographies and the like...
Having consolidated their position in the suburbs, the chains are now tackling the big cities. Walden already has three stores in New York City and is planning to open more. Next month Dalton is opening one of the nation's largest bookstores, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. It will carry 100,000 titles and have ten departments offering 125 categories of books. The religious and health sections will have parquet floors for a feeling of stability. The technology section will be paneled in walnut, and the young readers' section will be colored a bright Star Wars blue...