Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter appeared buoyant after returning to Winfield House from the dinner. "I could see a great confidence among the leaders about the future of democratic society," he told newsmen. The President even seemed a bit awed by the company he was keeping-a world away from Plains, Ga. Said he: "I was impressed with the great experience that the other leaders have in economics, which I didn't have." Could it be that he, of all people, had an inferiority complex? Confessed Carter: "Well, I do-on economics...
Germany's Schmidt publicly committed himself to a 5% annual rate of economic growth, even if it requires stimulating his economy a bit more than he would prefer. Most of the other leaders had been pressing a reluctant Schmidt to do more to help world economic recovery...
Genuine Scrap. Josiah Bounderby (Timothy West) is the apostle of the creed, the poor boy who made good, a man of red-faced bluster and aggressive self-pity. "I'm a bit of dirty riffraff," he brags, "a genuine scrap of rag, tag and bobtail." His young wife Louisa Gradgrind (Jacqueline Tong, who played Daisy in Upstairs, Downstairs] is as much a victim of the times as her husband's workers. Her father (Patrick Allen), who runs what is thought to be a progressive school, has taught her to ignore all feeling and rely only on facts...
...scarcely news that 1976 was a banner year for big companies-but just how good it was became a bit clearer last week when FORTUNE published its annual directory of the 500 largest U.S. industrial corporations. Specifically, by one important measure of profitability it was the best year since 1968. Aggregate sales of the 500 rose 12.2%, to $971 billion; profits climbed much faster, increasing 30.4%, to $49.4 billion. That meant that the median corporate blue-blood kept 4.6? of every sales dollar as net income, a seemingly modest profit margin but one that had not been matched in eight...
...tough, but can never quite match the prisoners' cool--a logical enough phenomenon, since guards are often men with the same frustrated and violent temperament as prisoners, but without the nerve to try to make society pay for their disappointment. John Alden's Rocky is also a bit uneasy and self-conscious. But this works, too, because the sort of character Rocky sums up should seem ill at ease. By background, he is a child of the streets. But deep down he possesses a far broader understanding of the world and bigger dreams than the others. (He is the only...