Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect fragile permafrost from being rutted by tire tracks, much of the Dempster is built on an elevated roadbed that rises as high as 6 ft. above the terrain. Thus it becomes difficult, as well as illegal, to pull off the highway and pitch a tent for the night, except at the sanctioned sites...
Paranoia has been running at a high level in the executive suite for months, and last week's events were hardly likely to reduce it. The final Nielsen ratings for the regular 1978-79 television season gave NBC its worst average in more than a decade. Johnny Carson, the brightest star in the insomniac firmament, was keeping network nabobs awake at night wondering whether he would indeed quit the Tonight Show before his contract runs out in April 1981. An embezzlement scandal was boiling, affiliate stations were restless and gossip was rampant. Parent Company RCA laid...
...least one high executive has been fired, others have been transferred to RCA, and more have left on their own steam, usually after their responsibilities were tapered. "When you have a company with as many difficulties as we have had, you have to adjust functions," said Pfeiffer blandly. "Sometimes able people have to paint on smaller canvases." She added: "There will not be a lot of firing in the next several months. But there will be additional key changes...
Much of the current gallows humor at NBC eddies around the relationship of Silverman and Pfeiffer, a.k.a. "the Odd Couple" and "Mr. Tough and Mrs. Clean." By most standards, the two top executives are indeed mismatched. Silverman is rumpled and raffish, a volatile high roller, known for his seat-of-the-pants decisions on programming. Pfeiffer is formal and controlled, a superb administrator, known for her idealism and belief in "high programming standards." Where Silverman's language is direct and often unprintable, Pfeiffer's fluctuates between girls' school ("Oh gosh, gee whiz") and "high...
...able to make $18,000. (She has since had corrective surgery by another doctor.) Bellin, whose flamboyant personal style (a contessa wife, visits to Manhattan's Studio 54 disco, a personal p.r. man) irritates some of his colleagues, admitted that the operation was not up to his usual high standards but insisted that it was "cosmetically acceptable." Instead, he attacked O'Hare as perennially dissatisfied, schizoid and a cosmetic-surgery junkie. She has had nine nose jobs, an eyelid lift, a face lift and hair transplant, said Bellin, who had performed two of those operations, as well...