Word: hewitt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unveiled plans to create what amounts to its own private home-shopping channel, "TV Macy's," by next year. In partnership with Cablevision Systems Corp., the department-store chain hopes, rather optimistically, to reach 20 million subscribers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Another partner is Don Hewitt, the septuagenarian executive producer of 60 Minutes...
...deal, with IBM, to develop a system of in-store CD manufacture under which CDs would be recorded as customers asked for them -- a heretical idea that was instantly condemned by the music industry. Now Macy's (the 135-year-old department store) has announced its deal with Don Hewitt (the 70-year-old executive producer of 60 Minutes) to create a Macy's home-shopping channel -- an imitative idea that was instantly pooh-poohed by the TV and retailing establishments...
...paid in Social Security taxes over their working lives. The truth is that because of the rapid rise in benefits in recent decades, the average person retiring today at 65 gets back all the money he paid into Social Security, with interest, by age 71. "After that," says Paul Hewitt, a budget expert at the National Taxpayers Union, "you're on welfare." And the average retiree lives until 81. These heavily subsidized benefits are financed by regressive Social Security taxes -- payroll deductions apply only to the first $57,600 of income this year -- that have more than doubled over...
...This pleasant young actor- waiter grew up thanking God for the joy of sex; now he curses God because "life is suddenly radioactive." So he decides that the only safe sex is celibacy. He sublimates at the gym: "endorphins, not hormones." He rejects the amiable advances of Steve (Tom Hewitt), who is HIV positive. And gradually he retreats from the gay life -- not just the sex, but the camaraderie in times of frivolity and mourning. He doesn't want to attend -- and diss -- one more AIDS memorial at which the guest stars are "the Gay Men's Chorus, Vanessa Redgrave...
...think answers were given, butdifficulties and complexities were certainlyaddressed," said Maddy Hewitt, who earned hermaster's degree at Harvard this year