Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King's own Southern Christian Leadership Conference has drastically declined in size and importance. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) has disintegrated. The organization of young activists known as SNCC (Student Non violent Coordinating Committee) has disappeared, as have the Black Panthers...
Since his Godfather II role was Sicilian to its mol ten core, he spent six weeks in Sicily mastering not only the regional dialect but a specific local variant. Challenged to play the young immigrant who would become the Godfather already denned by Marlon Brando, De Niro armed himself with a video tape of Brando's performance. "I didn't want to do an imitation, but I want ed to make it believable that I could be him as a young man. I would see some little movements that he would do and try to link them with...
...shape as Grant's troubles might suggest. Kendrick, 61, a former Grant's floorman who took over as chairman last September, believes that the chain's slide can be reversed before too long. He plans to cut back to a "hard core" of 900 stores by 1977, slash capital spending by 90% in 1975, and return to the low-cost soft goods that once made the chain so profitable. For the time being, Grant's creditors are cooperating by deferring loan payments. Not only Grants is at stake: were the chain to collapse, many...
After one of their December meetings, a dozen members of the core committee are working on their second and third beers in Cardell's, clustered at a side table and looking happy. They had spent most of their meeting planning their Christmas party for the next week as a sort of culmination of their efforts so far; an organization that is as important to them for its emotional impact as for the concrete benefits they are confident it will bring. But the group's two main themes--union as economic savior and union as a restorer of personal dignity...
...organized in a traditional way," Ron Burns, a member of the core committee, says. "The traditional way is to talk to people, use (union membership) cards, and build momentum. That...