Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really won the 1968-69 season? Michael Dann, CBS senior vice president for programming, feels that he did. With CBS in second place midseason, Dann decided to shift Hawaii Five-0 from its 8 p.m. Thursday time slot (where it started opposite Flying Nun and the second half of Daniel Boone) to 10 p.m. Wednesday (against the less formidable competition of The Outsider and a movie). As a result, Hawaii Five-0 climbed from a 26% share of the audience to 37%. Without that shift, NBC might have finished in first place...
...October, the leaders began to level off; for the next five months they zigzagged. During March, to judge by the eight indicators for which the results were in last week, they dropped about 1 %. The apparent shift of the leaders strengthens forecasts of a salutary slowdown in the second half...
...common in the developed nations that can afford to subsidize farming. It is a costly bounty that threatens to stimulate further protectionism and provoke trade-damaging price wars behind the barricades of new border taxes, import quotas and additional grain subsidies. The cruel irony is that while almost half of the world's people are malnourished, there is sufficient food to feed them today...
...transporting people in buses. Greyhound was willing to pay more than General, and Billy urged his supporters to accept its beneficence. Many of them did, but even more accepted General's new offer, which was even richer. Soon Greyhound owned one-third of Armour, and General more than half...
...Terence Stamp) visits an industrialist's home in Milan. His stay is brief, but during it he manages to make love to the maid, the wife, the industrialist, the daughter and the son of the household. The passion is so indiscriminate and the acting so undisciplined that one half-expects to see the milkman, and perhaps his horse, included in the rutting. But Pasolini has other excesses in mind. When the visitor departs, he leaves behind a shrilling choir of victims. The daughter (Anne Wiazemsky) becomes catatonic; the son, an artist, urinates on his paintings; the wife turns nymphomaniac...