Word: halfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carneiro pressed for political liberalization, including curbs on the brutal secret police. After the revolution, he was made a Minister Without Portfolio, but he soon quit to form his own party, which opposed nationalization of banks and major industries. Last year he quit the Center Social Democrats when half its Assembly members voted to support the Socialists. Sorely in need of his leadership, the party later welcomed him back as its chief...
...decipher where the starship Enterprise stands vis-a-vis the mysterious intruder from outer space. When the crew are not jabbering in technocratese, they are into metaphysics, one of the characteristics of the old Star Trek television show and a major reason for its cult vogue among the half-educated...
...school's red ink to soar to $500 million, while claiming the deficit stood no higher than $43 million. "They sat there and lied to me," said Byrne, recalling a recent upbeat discussion of school finances with Hannon and his aides. "I don't think anybody with half a brain can mistake the difference between $43 million and $500 million." That was a puzzling claim, since Byrne herself was confusingly mixing together two separate problems-last year's operating deficit of $43 million, and estimated total indebtedness to bondholders and others...
...schedule this fall, ABC broke one of TV's sacrosanct laws: it moved winning shows to new time periods. Such traditional Top Ten hits as Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy have all suffered from being shifted. Some have at times fallen to the bottom half of the Nielsen chart. Made-for-TV movies and miniseries, usually a strength for ABC, have also proved poor draws this season...
...life. "The others were a bit arrogant at the outset," Jones reports. "We'd start playing one of their songs, and they'd be shocked I didn't know it. But why should I know Who songs? I had my own band." After a decade and a half spent playing and warring together, the three senior Who members may be like brothers, but with undercurrents of the Karamazovs and an overlay of the Dalton boys. It is not only a matter of maintaining a punishingly high musical standard; The Who has the weight of its own myth and the burden...