Word: general
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blown down Network Row like Hurricane Agnes. Robert Wood, a former CBS president turned producer (The Cheap Show), refers to them as "the goddamn sweeps." He complains that "there shouldn't be such weeks in the TV calendar. They are artificial and destructive, and they contribute to the general feeling of paranoia." Like most other pernicious institutions, the sweeps still perform a function. Using two relatively small samples, Nielsen keeps regular tabs on how well the networks are doing. Some 1,200 families have the famous Nielsen meters attached to their sets to show which channel is being watched...
...start of the season until the end of the season," says Network President Fred Pierce, 45, "not necessarily for any particular period. Our average for the entire season will be the same as it is in any of the so-called sweeps periods that everybody writes about." Like General Motors, which sets prices for the automobile industry, ABC now sets the tone for commercial television; it lays out its schedule, and the other two networks have to work against...
...Paris, the opera world's most tantalizing other shoe has finally dropped. The Paris Opera presented the first-ever full-length Lulu, third act and all. To Rolf Liebermann, the Paris Opéra's general director, it was the culmination of a 30-year quest. To Conductor Pierre Boulez, it was belated "justice to a work that has been mutilated." To the black-tie audience of statesmen, artistic leaders, 200 music critics and assorted opera buffs, it was a triumph and, to some, a perplexity...
...initial eight-year plan, unfurled in 1978, set some Olympian goals, including a 30% increase in China's grain production, a doubling of steel output and the completion of 120 major new industrial projects by 1985. Today the general commitment to modernization remains, but there is apparently a shift in strategies and priorities. The Chinese are suddenly worried about two key problems: 1) How to pay for the transfusion of technology that will be required? 2) How to absorb it into an economy in which education levels are low, "modern" machinery is out of date...
Clearly, Chrysler needs a lift. It lost $204.6 million in 1978, even though it earned $43 million in the fourth quarter, entirely from nonautomotive businesses. All automakers except General Motors plan a series of temporary plant closings this month to reduce bulging dealer inventories, but Chrysler's is by far the largest shutdown. Four of its five domestic auto plants and one that makes trucks and vans will close for at least a week, idling about 20,000 workers. Says Iacocca of the switches amid shutdowns: "We have to get profitable, we have to carve out a niche...