Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilcox shares, a valuation usually accorded only to such blue chips as Coca-Cola or IBM. B & W's spotty earnings record suggests that it is not worth that much. Over the past decade the company's sales have leaped 170%, to $1.7 billion, but earnings have gone up only 60%, to $53 million...
...think there is a philosophy that is good no matter what you are doing. That is to always act as if you're in last place. You just shouldn't take success for granted, because you can turn around one day and say, 'My Lord, it is all gone...
...answers will come from 1,200 U.S. households, the chosen few whose daily tube-watching translates into Nielsen ratings. In combining new inspirations with hardy old shows, the networks have mildly varying prime-time profiles. NBC, which brought Gone with the Wind to the small screen last year, hopes to fight its way out of the cellar with a barrage of costly, elaborate specials, or "events," as the press releases call them. CBS is still counting on comedy, though not as heavily as in the old days. Up at the top, ABC is the most eclectic network...
Variety Sonny and Cher are gone, but Donny and Marie will be back on ABC. This year Sister Osmond will forsake her clean-teen look for boots, bobbed hair and slinky high fashion. Joining the song-and-skit brigade this season: Richard Pryor, who will bring his jive, streetwise humor to a new NBC variety series, and Redd Foxx, who will sanitize his stand-up act for his own weekly show...
Inevitably, many of the new shows will falter, but this year the turkeys will be gone long before Thanksgiving. Replacement series are already in production. "Things were different in the past," notes NBC Executive Vice President Irwin Segelstein. "Now we've got to be ready for anything, any time." The race may be starting next week, but its end is nowhere in sight...