Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allowed to run their own mutual funds. Paradoxically, Dreyfus Chairman Howard Stein (TIME cover, Aug. 24) is a strong opponent of institutional membership. But he explained last week: "If the brokers are to be allowed to compete with the institutions, then the institutions must not work under a financial handicap...
...Crimson is 1-2 for the year with an 11-9 victory over Penn earlier in the year. The Quakers, however, are a more experienced team, playing with a three goal handicap while Harvard has a zero handicap...
Almost the entire undergraduate Crimson squad from last year has returned this winter. The team is led by number one player Peter Bennett, sophomore Joe O'Connor, and Howie Corcoran. No one on the starting team has a goal handicap...
Harris' speech handicap makes it impossible for Ken Hughes to offer any vision of Cromwell the private man, since domestic scenes have to be played at less than a shout, and a hoarse whisper is the only alternative to a shout that Harris can come up with. I stress this failing not to slur Harris (indeed, Cromwell by the end of his career was probably hoarse too!): rather, I bring it up as a factor crucial in explaining why the ideological bias of the movie-strongly pro-Cromwell-fails to work convincingly in actual dramatic interchange...
...wide variety of industries fell into serious trouble in 1970. Moviemakers struggled unsuccessfully to overcome the handicap of lower labor costs and government subsidies that have lured American producers overseas. About half of the films shown in the U.S. this year were foreign-made. Short of cash, many studios sold off valuable real estate, chopped production and consolidated offices. About 80% of the members of the Screen Actors Guild had no work. Quipped Bob Hope: "The only actor still working in California is Ronnie Reagan...