Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people alter their behavior by small degrees, but do not change anything drastically. Second, they persist in one of the oldest articles of the American faith - a belief in the technological fix, in new developments that will bail them out of their dilemmas. Gasohol, for example, has just the look of that American deliverance. Thus, in a sense, American tradition itself militates against concerted action against the energy shortage...
...magazine's printers in Kentucky with a last-minute editorial change. But Forst's approach to Hartnett suggests a Champion Spark Plug in the making. According to Dave O'Brian's "Don't Quote Me..." column in the Boston Phoenix (O'Brian is the Boston media junkie's weekly fix), Forst told Hartnett, "Sure, go ahead. Stay where you are and in 10 years you'll be doing the same things you're doing now." One thing for sure, the Herald won't be doing the same things it used...
...antitrust largely involves traditional questions, such as whether a company conspired to fix prices, divide up markets or drive a weak competitor out of business. A commission appointed by President Carter to review antitrust laws and procedures earlier this year recommended that the standards of proof be relaxed in favor of the Government...
...Angeles lyricism, fast and relaxed and flush with exotic incongruity, like L.A.'s transplanted palm trees. "My writing is all from a particular neighborhood," she told TIME'S Jeff Melvoin. "I can pick any person on this street or the next and just be them." The titles fix the tone and set the stage (Easy Money, Coolsville, The Last Chance Texaco), while the songs spin out little narratives of hard luck and high spirits in the big town: "There was a Joe/ Leanin' on the back door/ A couple Jills with their eyes on a couple...
...also been what Silverman calls a "third eye," or a disinterested critic, in prime-time programming. Naturally enough, Silverman has devoted almost all his attention to programming. Says an NBC executive: "Fred is like an eager little boy with a highly developed feeling and sense of how to fix programs, and he couldn't care less about all this monkey business about corporate skill and management...