Word: cater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...headache for the scheduled airlines, but they could prove a minor worry compared with another nightmare looming on the aviation horizon-Skytrain, Freddie Laker's proposed international air shuttle. Skytrain is aimed at a sector of the travel market that even the ABCs do not cater to: passengers who are both on a budget and unable to plan ahead for cheap charter fares. They include, in Laker's definition, the less than affluent citizen "who gets a call that Aunt Matilda is very sick and wants to visit her before she dies...
Serendipitous Supper. Last month Douglass Cater, who directs the institute's communications program and once served as Washington editor of the now defunct Reporter magazine, was dining in London with an old friend, Observer Contributor Kenneth Harris. "Do you know anyone with a few million to spare?" Harris asked. The Observer, it turned out, had been losing as much as $1 million a year and recently laid off one-third of its staff. The paper's owners, heirs of the second Lord Astor, were willing to hand over control to the right investor. Cater telephoned the Aspen Institute...
...valuable asset in a business as politically sensitive as oil. Indeed, Anderson has announced plans for an "international advisory council" of leading businessmen, politicians and educators to assist the paper's board of directors. "Great corporate enterprises need to do things that make their presence known," explains Cater. "In the broadest sense, public relations is involved...
...years this pattern has persisted no one thought to angle a few of these shoot-up shows toward women is one of TV's mysteries. But Silverman, who was placed in charge of daytime programming at CBS when he was just 25, learned at an impressionable age to cater to the ladies. Typically, each Angels episode makes sure at least one co-star strips down to a bikini in the first ten minutes, the better to keep males in a state of gape-jawed passivity and expectation thereafter. But the show also spends a more-than-usual amount...
...incumbent inevitably tailors his policies to the ill-defined desires of assorted voting "blocs" in the hope of cueing the correct response, often dramatically altering government policy in the process. President Ford has been no exception. Both candidates are challenged to please as many voters as possible, to cater to a completely heterogeneous assortment of values and beliefs while appearing consistent and self-controlled. After months of this they inevitably blunder and reel from the reaction...