Word: burtness
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...abuses of the market that occur in Santiago and Moscow burt the wealth of the economy as a whole. Faced with uncertainty and the danger of having their capital stock seized at any time and their earnings thus wiped out, those in the informal sector often are unable to build up the capital necessary to actually start a real, formal small business...
...time Noriega gets done with the system, this case will do more damage to American justice than he could possibly have done as a dictator," complains New York University law professor Burt Neuborne, former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Justice Department officials insist that the deposed tyrant will be tried strictly on the merits of the indictment, but some in Washington admit that the trial is profoundly political. "The guy was a de facto head of state," says an Administration official. "So how can you say the trial isn't political...
...Lintas agency, a contract probably worth at least $1 million in fees. The loser: J. Walter Thompson, which has been creating Kodak's advertising for 61 years, most recently its "True Colors" campaign. "It came as a complete surprise to us," said the sobered JWT chairman, Burt Manning. "I still don't know what happened." Among the advertisers currently working the crowd for a possible new image: American Express (billings at stake: $60 million), Michelob ($35 to $40 million), Weight Watchers ($30 million) and -- appropriately enough -- Maalox ($15 million...
According to Gahl Hodges Burt, White House social secretary during the Reagan years, Shirley Watkins was a computer technician whose job was to answer phones and record visitors' names. "She never saw Nancy Reagan and never saw me," says Burt. "If those are the kinds of sources being used, it's really shocking...
...Equal, a two-part ABC movie, portrays the events leading up to the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision outlawing segregation in public schools. Sidney Poitier, in his first TV appearance since 1955, stars as future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who headed the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal effort. Burt Lancaster, another rare bird in television land, plays Marshall's courtroom adversary, John W. Davis. George Stevens Jr., whose father created some of Hollywood's great epics, was writer and director...