Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seating. At the same time the determinedly upscale VIP lounge was set up in North Terminal. The counterrevolutionary campaign was a clumsy attempt to woo the slice of the airline market that People had never served, the business traveler. The change in style came on the heels of a brief People effort to raise fares, a move that was reversed within seven weeks...
Shultz then paid a brief visit--the first by a high-level U.S. official--to the oil-rich Sultanate of Brunei (pop. 214,000), which sits on the northwest coast of the island of Borneo and has been ruled by the same family for 29 generations. "There are no poor people in Brunei," said one U.S. official. He added that little Brunei, with its annual per-capita income of roughly $17,000, "has no serious problems of any kind." Shultz chatted with the Sultan and took a tour of the thousand-room palace compound with its squash and tennis courts...
...power by appealing to human weaknesses. The habit of viewing it does not encourage reflection or contemplation. The eye is trained to crave novelty, while the brain rests or slumbers. Political debate, which during my last visit seemed a passion and a recreation among Americans, has shrunk to brief bursts of pleasant images. And television's ascent has coincided with a measurable decline in the ability of young people to read. Democracy cannot function without an informed citizenry. The paradox of television in forwarding such a goal seems clear: barring extraordinary circumstances, it can best summon the attention of most...
...This procedure must be repeated each time a new element is added to the scene. The pastry creatures that came to life in Young Sherlock Holmes, for example, were hand-manipulated rod puppets, each shot individually and added one by one in as many as twelve layers. For a brief shot of a space battle in Return of the Jedi, 63 layers were required. This and other complex scenes are made possible by a computer-driven camera developed by ILM that can repeat the same motion over and over so that new elements can be added with great precision...
...were blindly optimistic, the market could set itself up for a big fall. "There is widespread disbelief, and that's the sign of the best kind of advance," says Newton Zinder, E.F. Hutton's senior market analyst. In fact, the recent one- month slump, triggered in part by a brief upsurge in oil prices, makes investors feel better because they have it out of the way, like a dose of castor oil. Says Donald De Lutis, a money manager at San Francisco's Robert C. Brown investment firm: "I think 5% to 10% corrections are part of the normal activity...