Word: hoariest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casual viewer, the appeal of ABC's Tuesday night hits may seem elusive at first. In many ways the shows look like well produced rehashes of the hoariest old TV formats. Unlike the Norman Lear sitcoms on CBS, ABC's shows do not pretend to deal with topical issues, and their premises are brazenly retrograde. Happy Days copies Dobie Gillis; Three's Company recalls Petticoat Junction and Love That Bob. Laverne and Shirley's slapstick antics- usually built around wild schemes to earn money or meet men-are often indistinguishable from the adventures of Lucy...
...plucking out such anachronisms as a prohibition against ice in factory drinking water (a throwback to a time years ago when ice was cut from polluted rivers). Last week OSHA's director, Assistant Secretary of Labor Morton Corn, said that some of the agency's hoariest regulations soon would be revised and businessmen would get a louder voice in changing them...
...hoariest of all Wall Street adages is that the stock market can stand almost anything except uncertainty. As investors try to evaluate what the energy crisis is likely to do to the economy, they can now see nothing but uncertainty-and sure enough, the market cannot stand it. A nearly perpendicular drop in prices has sheared a staggering $100 billion off the value of exchange-listed shares in the past six weeks and plunged Wall Street into its blackest gloom in two decades. In brokerage offices, the talk is all of margin calls, possible failure of some big investment houses...