Word: directors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each large room, many others live in temporary, ramshackle shelters made of bamboo and straw mats. Like the other workers, the newcomers are paid standard wages of $17 a month, plus rations of rice, meat and oil. The refugees have strained the resources of the farm, said Farm Director Yin Dayong. "Before, the farm provided 390,000 lbs. of grain to the state. This year it incurred a loss...
...Street's better-known pessimists, is trumpeting that the Dow could reach 2,000 within five years. Schroder Naess & Thomas, which manages $1.3 billion of institutional accounts, decided to increase its stock holdings by at least 25% because it was fearful of missing the market altogether. Explains Research Director John Groome: "We may be premature, but we are going to be there when the market explodes on the upside." That is widely expected to occur when inflation, interest rates and the dollar show signs of moving in the right direction. As Christopher Johnson of Lloyds Bank in Britain says...
This year the offensive against the September surge is particularly strong. Budget Director James McIntyre last month fired off to all agencies the most detailed memo yet on "controlling year-end buying," even including guidelines for buying furniture. At the next Cabinet meeting, probably this week, McIntyre, with the President's blessing, will warn that departments that shovel out money late this year will risk having their budgets reduced next year...
Seriously, folks, The 80s was the inspiration of Peter Elbling, 35, a director and actor. Last winter he took the idea to Christopher Cerf, 38, and Tony Hendra, 38, a pair of National Lampoon alumni who helped edit Not the New York Times, and Art Director Michael Gross, 33, another Lampoon veteran. The four men, aided by half the wits in Manhattan, brainstormed for months and recruited more than three dozen writers from such places as the Lampoon, the New York Times, Harper's, TIME, New York magazine and The New Yorker. George Plimpton wrote an unsigned parody...
Some crime commissions are not very aggressive. Chattanooga's is mainly a public relations liaison, run by the Chamber of Commerce. Philadelphia citizens crime commission Executive Director Ian Lennox calls his organization "a very friendly watchdog" and is worried that it lacks clout. But he states that "any community is poorer without...