Word: drains
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Mortality Reduction. Defenders of the system contend that it is economically unavoidable. Pretesting, they say, is in effect prerating-a means of anticipating and then eliminating the shows likely to fail. This year 40% of the 1965-66 shows went down the drain, and the development price of replacement programming costs a budget-breaking $50 million. Audience Surveys officials claim that their system is 92% accurate; that is, their pretesting weeds out all but 8% of the shows that are destined to be unpopular. Yet most scriptwriters, performers and directors echo the sentiments of Producer Brod kin, who argues that...
...this confronted the Bank of England with a delicate dilemma: Should the bank recommend an increase in Britain's discount rate from 6% to 7%, or perhaps more? Such a move would reduce the sterling drain, but it would make it harder for British businessmen to borrow money, and thus unsettle the economy more. The decision is largely up to Leslie K. O'Brien, who took office last week as the bank's 114th governor...
...other ten, white-run, banks in Harlem, is one more part of the power structure, one more reason why Harlem is an economic colony of New York City. They feel that Negro bankers who live outside Harlem--as do almost all of Freedom National's 50 employees--can drain money out of Harlem just as effectively as the white businessmen who own almost all of Harlem's stores. Black bankers do not help Harlemites, they maintain, they help themselves...
...mental illness as a cause of lasting disability. They take a heavier toll of work days lost in industry than do accidents. Even so, total U.S. outlays for arthritis and rheumatism research come to little more than $15 million a year-as against $300 million poured down the drain in desperation for quack "remedies," ranging from diets to sitting in old uranium mines, from bee venom to honey and vinegar. The troubles are classified in four major groups...
Claudia gamely portrays a nightclub chorine, sister of a scientific genius who may or may not have been kidnaped by a top-secret U.S. security agency or by a sinister organization linked to "the international black market in brains." As proof of the brain drain, the movie offers more plot. Rock is a society psychologist and boudoir gallant who is afflicted with an obsessional neurosis against long engagements. When he is not carting diamond rings in and out of Tiffany's, he climbs into taxis, trucks and planes and travels, blindfolded, on house calls to a decaying mansion where...