Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evil. Only under flower-child aegis (Kesey's book was celebrated by Tom Wolfe, Allen Ginsberg and other gurus) could a 1975 audience be fed such sexist, crypto-fascist garbage. In the end, it's nothing more than pop psychology on the level of a counter-cultural Reader's Digest. Unless people take it seriously, in which case it's nearly criminal...
...government to take over the potash industry, much of which is owned by subsidiaries of American firms. In response to reporters' questions, he also noted that relations had not been helped by a new tax bill that, once enacted, would force both TIME and the Reader's Digest to stop publishing separate Canadian editions. The bill would require that both magazines have an 80% difference in editorial content from their parent U.S. editions (TIME...
Perkins said he does not expect to make many changes in the department. "I think the department is in relatively good shape," he said, adding, "The last few years have seen some major changes. The department should have time to digest and evaluate them before making any more...
...TIME Canada and Reader's Digest to qualify as Canadian magazines under the new bill, and thus afford advertisers the advantage of a tax deduction, they would have to be 75% Canadian-owned, show editorial content "substantially" different from their parent editions, and demonstrate that their editorial control is in the hands of Canadians. Time Inc. has been prepared to meet the 75% ownership rule, and the company last spring produced a sample issue of a newsmagazine that devoted 41% of its space to Canadian news, instead of the present 12% to 15%. But in October, newly named Minister...
...Reader's Digest Association which sold one-third of its Canadian operation in 1968 has steadfastly refused to meet the 75% ownership rule. The firm also refuses to change the editorial content of its Canadian edition or to give effective editorial control to Canadians. As E. Paul Zimmerman, president of the Reader's Digest Association (Canada) Ltd., said last week: "We cannot survive under the present terms of Bill C-58, and we must plan for winding up our operations as soon as possible...