Word: differences
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Error of Judgment. How could Price Waterhouse's reading of the books differ so greatly from Pergamon's, which was audited by the respected British firm of Chalmers Impey? One reason is the failure of a Pergamon affiliate, International Learning Systems Corp., an encyclopedia company, which lost $8.5 million in 27 months-a fact that did not come to light until two months ago because the books had not been kept up to date. Pergamon is writing off the $5,000,000 it invested in International Learning; Maxwell admits that failing to provide adequate management for the venture...
...their own, often bizarre styles. Among them are BITCH (for nothing). WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell), Bread and Roses (long a feminist slogan, suggesting that women wanted not only flowers but bread?wages?as well), Redstockings, the Radical Mothers, and Media Women. Often their tactics differ from more conservative groups like NOW, FEW (Federally Employed Women) and Women Inc. of San Francisco. The latter, while it supports the call for equality, opposes abolition of abortion laws and "does not approve of the antiwar movement," as Vice President Mrs. Marjorie Hart...
S.D.S. Out. For the most part, the student approach has been realistic and determined. The new activists differ from the first young crusaders who carried Eugene McCarthy to sudden prominence in 1968. Golden says: "There was more idealism in the McCarthy thing. There was a once-and-for-all feeling of making a major change. I don't think many of the young people working here feel we're going to bring about an overwhelming immediate change. We just feel that this is the best way of going about starting...
Painful Accuracy. Nilsson himself speaks of a "certain indefinable something" that he and Newman have in common. But it is really where they differ that tells the most. One of the many ironies about Newman is that, although he sings in a raspy, soul-based blues style, his chief concern as a lyricist is Middle America. In Love Story, which he sang on NBC's Liza Minnelli Special last week, Newman sums up middle-age with painful accuracy: "Some nights we'll go out dancin'/ If I am not too tired/ And some nights...
...answers, Psychiatrist Er nest L. Hartmann, 36, advertised in Bos ton and New York papers for long and short sleepers to engage in an eight-night "sleep-in" at Boston State Hos pital's Sleep and Dream Laboratory, which Hartmann directs. His findings in dicate that such people differ from or dinary sleepers - and each other - not so much physically as psychologically...