Word: franticness
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McDavitt became chairman five months ago to begin dealing with frantic neighborhood organization calling for a city-wide ban on liquor licenses. He has listened to businessmen, city officials, and citizens condescendingly trying to teach him about city politics. And with all the hysteria over liquor in Cambridge and previous indiscriminate enforcement, he has his work...
...recently as 1981, only outsiders (and Johnny Carson) were cracking jokes about NBC. An air of frantic desperation hung over the place as then Chairman Fred Silverman threw onto his schedule, and then pulled off, one expensive flop after another. To the savviest TV producers, "it was as if NBC didn't exist," recalls Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties). "We didn't go there with an idea, because we knew it would be crucified." Silverman, who had earned a reputation as a programming wunderkind at CBS and then ABC earlier in the '70s, was also scalded by the boycott...
...fierce merger wars. Consumers who have been seduced by easy credit know it as the flood of bills that arrive each month. For the Government, it is the largest and most menacing budget deficits in U.S. history. From whatever vantage point it is viewed, Americans have been on a frantic borrowing binge. And that vast accumulation of IOUs has become a frightening threat to economic well-being...
Today workboats leave at all hours from the Battery, hauling hard-hatted construction crews and materials for the restoration. The Great Hall is a maze of scaffolding. Fans hum everywhere, drying out plaster. Bare bulbs hang down all over. Occasionally there is the frantic sound of beating wings, a gull or a pigeon come in through a smashed window. Here and there is the faintest scent...
...Saturn project has triggered a frantic bidding war among states for the 6,000-worker plant that GM will build to assemble the car. In all, 25 Governors, including Mario Cuomo of New York and James Thompson of Illinois, have made pilgrimages to GM in hopes of getting the facility for their states. The scramble has become a distraction and something of an embarrassment to GM, which hopes to pick a location this summer...