Word: brownouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon can never resist a chance to get in a lick at the press. About the Shah's fallen reputation, Nixon is dead right, but not simply because Khomeini manipulated the press: the Ayatullah has been able to take noisy advantage of a bizarre news brownout, a month of "self-restraint" unparalleled in American life. Johnny Carson confesses on TV that he is having a harder time with his opening monologues; Art Buchwald, who gets most of his humor columns out of topical events, hasn't done a single column about Iran. Even presidential candidates have been biting...
...they do not consider it their business to generate one. That, to them, would be news manipulation. On any lively issue they expect counterarguments to surface normally in the news, and just this has been missing in the news programs from which most Americans get their information, under the brownout of self-restraint...
...George Hamilton, who plays the sanguineous count in the movie Love at First Bite. In this comic version of Bram Stoker's 1897 play, Dracula turns up in Manhattan, where he gets mugged on the street, assaulted by an admiring female on the subway and caught in a brownout. Enough, one might say, to make a count go batty...
...ripple-effect, as well as the brownout, also hangs heavily over the negotiations at Washington's Hay-Adams Hotel--a place Miller aides and coal operators will see more of after yesterday's failure by the 38 regional representatives to put their imprimatur to a second, fattened industry offer. The strike has already idled more than 23,000 workers in the steel industry and coal-hauling railroads, had a hand in last week's laying-off of 130,000 auto workers and, by Government estimates, could add as many as 400,000 workers to the country's six-per-cent...
Italy has pushed its modernization none too soon. The country's trade unions recently called a half-day general strike, and two weeks ago electrical workers caused a four-hour brownout in Rome. The unions threaten more strikes unless the government rapidly improves housing and schools. Labor trouble in the months ahead could slow production and start still another capital flight. But if Prime Minister Emilio Colombo can keep the country tranquil by rapidly streamlining the economy, 1971 may be a vintage year for Italian business. The European Common Market Executive Commission predicts that, barring domestic discord, Italy will...