Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central dispute between writers and producers is over syndication residuals for one-hour shows, the payments made to writers each time a network television show appears on an independent station. Writers now receive a flat fee of $16,000 for the first six syndicated reruns, but producers want to pay ! them according to a formula that takes into account total income from a show's sale. Writers say that method would significantly cut their average income, though producers deny this would happen...
Nesson said that past covert actions have indicated a "disbelief in our own rhetoric of democracy and converted it from a powerful ideal to a transparent political slogan." He called for reform of the National Security Act of 1947, which established the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council and implicitly endorses covert actions...
...central bankers tried to back their words with action. When the dollar began tumbling in midweek, they quickly intervened in foreign exchange markets, buying up the U.S. currency. But the strategy only slowed the greenback's retreat, and if the trade picture keeps deteriorating, central bankers will find it increasingly difficult to prop up the dollar. Investor pressure to drive the currency down could prove overwhelming. Says Howard Wachtel, professor of economics at American University: "If the dollar really falls outside the band agreed to by the G-7 and direct intervention cannot restore it, then we risk a free...
...reduced instruction set computer. RISC is not a new technology, but a fresh approach to computing that challenges 25 years of semiconductor design. It focuses on a computer's most basic commands: the instructions that are embedded, or hard-wired, into the silicon circuitry of the machine's central processing unit. The first computers made do with a handful of primitive commands, such as LOAD, ADD and STORE, which programmers combined to perform complex tasks. Lacking a command to multiply 6 times 5, for example, they had to instruct their computers to add five 6s together...
This colorful crew is self-satirizing. Any moralizing comment on their behavior would be superfluous. As for the central triangle (a cad, a cuckold and a tin-hearted tart deluded into thinking she has at last found a grand passion), it is too banal to awaken much emotion. Nor is there any point in using these figures from a remote society for social criticism. No, Radford has done the right thing with his material by observing the exaggerated tonalities of glamour-trash fiction. As a result, White Mischief plays as something a lot of people claim to have been missing...