Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persuaders seem to be making a comeback. A television commercial for children's toys included the subliminal message "Get it!" until the Federal Communications Commission issued a warning against further TV or radio subliminations. In the movie The Exorcist the image of a death mask was flashed before audiences to give them an extra scare. The tactic may have worked. Warner Bros, is being sued by an Indiana teenager who fainted during the movie, breaking his jawbone and several teeth. His lawyer contends that the fleeting death mask is "one of the major issues" in the case...
...psychotherapy, the link between credentials and performance is notoriously hard to demonstrate. Some studies show that psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric social workers do roughly the same work and get similiar results...
Chairman John Riccardo and President Lee lacocca temporarily waived their annual salaries of $360,000 in exchange for cash or credits tied to the value of Chrysler stock. If two years from now the stock price is unchanged from the August closing average of around $8, each executive will get back all his deferred pay; if the stock doubles, each will receive double, and if it halves, each will get only half. Meanwhile, the company also announced salary reductions of up to 10% for about 1,700 executives...
...with $25 in his pocket, slept in a bus station, got a job as a $40-a-week stock boy, and brought his brothers over in 1966. They opened a jeans store in Brooklyn. The brothers worked hard, branched out, saved up $300,000 and determined to get richer by manufacturing the better blue jean. Ralph, 35, styled a tight-fitting jean with pocket stitching that was to be made under contract in Hong Kong, and Avi, 33, set up a distribution system. Early last year Joseph offered high pay to hire the best salesmen that he could find...
...here for no purpose, unless we can invent one." Yet Vonnegut does not believe that people are capable of doing so, at least not in a way that will make them happy. This leads to the static quality of his books: nothing much ever changes except to get a little worse. Some of the evidence Vonnegut offers is rigged: Starbuck comes to believe that wisdom does not exist and hence can not be used to improve the lot of man kind. "Who was the wisest man in the Bible, supposedly?" he asks and answers: "He was King Solomon, of course...