Word: gram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promo men look like blow-dry Willy Lomans. Dressed in satin warmup jackets that hype the latest company acts, they hunker down for long sessions with program directors of radio stations all over the country, pushing the product, offering occasional sweeteners that can range from free T shirts to gram bottles of coke. But, says Radio & Records Editor and Publisher Bob Wilson, "gifts alone can't get a record played more than a couple of times if the public doesn't like what it hears...
Such pathology cannot be explained through quick-cut cinema verite. The pro gram's power rests not in analysis but in immediacy. The footage seems to have been shot in the fly-on-the-wall manner of Film Maker Frederick Wiseman, but the editing is both jumpier and crisper than in Wiseman's works. In one se quence, the camera pans up an icicle-festooned stairwell inside a Newark tenement, enters an apartment squalid beyond words and comes to rest on an infant cooing over its bottle. No one states the obvious: that child will never have...
...instructed to collect taxes in grain and kind for their own support. ("If the people die," said an officer to me, "the land will still be Chinese. But if the soldiers starve, the Japanese will take the land.") The army had emptied the countryside of food; shipped in no gram from grain-surplus areas; ignored the need of the people to eat. The army's tax, I found, was usually equivalent to the full crop, but in some cases it was higher-and peasants were sometimes forced to sell animals, tools, furniture, for cash to make up the difference...
...droplets that fell from it onto homes, gardens and livestock were composed of trichlorophenol, an irritating but nonfatal chemical. But the overheating reactor sent the temperature of the TCP soaring above 200° C. Dioxin was formed-a substance so lethal that one hundred-millionth of a gram in a two-pound mixture would kill half the rabbits who might...
...issue figured more prominently in Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign. He promised to reorganize and reduce Big Government. But other Presidents have made similar pledges, only to end up making the bureaucracy bigger than ever. This week, however, Carter unveils a new pro gram that promises the first comprehensive reform of the civil service since it was established 95 years ago in place of the politically dominated spoils system. The program, says Carter's reorganization chief, Harrison Wellford, will "put the work ethic back into public service." Managers will be able to hire, fire and transfer personnel more...