Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turing the Governor's mansion, so Agnew had kind words for the incumbent, Democrat Albert Brewer. In his speech the Vice President continued and broadened the previous week's attack on television news presentations to include print journalism (see THE PRESS). Agnew did not ignore his more familiar adversary, radical youth. In other statements, Agnew has blamed journalism for ballooning the militants' dimensions. In Montgomery, the Vice President even invoked the names of George Kennan, Irving Kristol and others of the Eastern intellectual fraternity-more usually targets of his contempt-because they had spoken out cogently against...
Hundreds of men and women are responsible for the presentation of TV news, and any selection of an "elite" (in Spiro Agnew's phrase) is necessarily arbitrary. Still, a few men stand out at the top of the profession, including the twelve, some familiar and some not, who are identified below...
...admirals also suspect that they have been victimized by the practice of "buy-in," long familiar to the aircraft and electronics industries. A company "buying in" enters a low bid to get a military contract, then submits enough overrun claims later to turn a handsome profit. The Navy, too, is guilty of a form of buyin. It submits to Congress fairly low requests for funds, then returns for more to pay for overruns...
...Familiar Face...
...Granatelli's face is familiar to TV viewers who have seen his STP commercial. While he claimed to have greater personal television recognition than any other public figure except for recent American presidents and vice-presidents, he said his product's success has not been due entirely to his personal endorsement...