Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times are particularly hard on the small farmer. Caught in a credit squeeze, he is usually the first to go bankrupt or give up (see box). Since 1970, farm debt has doubled to $101 billion. An Agriculture Department survey of the wheat belt last summer showed that 73,000 farmers were having trouble repaying loans, with some 14,000 of them likely to lose their farms. Edward H. Melroe, a Colorado grain farmer, reports: "I went to the bank last week for another $10,000 loan, and the banker told me: 'That's it. No more...
...consultants," says Charles Whipple, the Boston Globe's ombudsman. At worst, the use of consultants leads to an epidemic of fluff at the expense of hard news. Magid and Dallas' Belden Associates usually advise clients to squeeze some front-page nation al and international news into a box of summaries. After an audience study last year by Belden and some in-house soul searching, the Miami News began to boil much of its copy down to short, brisk stories that could be read more easily by television viewers. Since then, News circulation has for the moment stopped falling...
...retirement when Irish terrorists began stepping up their bombing attacks in Northern Ireland. But he has exhausted his supply of nerve. It is not a matter of steady hands; a watchmaker's skill is not required. All that is necessary is to pry the top off the wooden box and cut a single wire before the hour hand of the alarm clock reaches the soldered contact point. Usually there is time. Thomas is no longer sure...
...gray. He knows the variegated forms of middle age, of working-class London, of fear: "A thin spiral of smoke was curling up from one corner of the top. He could smell the almond scent. 'You son of a bitch,' said Thomas, looking straight down into the box . . . The hour hand was nearly touching the nipple of metal." Atwater's stage machinery creaks a bit as Thomas and his bomb-making opponent are brought together, but the resolution is authentic, and properly somber. The rights and wrongs of the Catholic-Protestant, Irish-English struggle are lost...
...years ago revealed that about half of America's male population turned to the sports page of their newspaper before they even looked at the front page. It is somewhat disconcerting to realize that ostensible democracy is stocked with lots of people who are more familiar with the box score of last night's Padres-Astros game than with issues that affect their lives. There is nothing wrong with the sports themselves, but the degree of devotion given them seems meaningless when compared to the exigencies of more temporal problems. In this land of conspicuous consumption, professional sports...