Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slim that the state will foot Mitchelson's bill. Even so, he is not likely to be left stewing penniless in his office Jacuzzi. The Marvin case brought Mitchelson, who is believed to have earned some $750,000 last year, not only a book contract but also a host of new clients...
Tory proposals to get tough with the unions are another potential minefield. Admittedly, British trade unions are inflexible and old-fashioned. So is British management. It is at least arguable that management's perpetuation of a "Them and Us" syndrome through a whole host of class-based divisions--ranging from the most trivial policies like separate eating places for management and labor, to a refusal to allow any German-style worker-director or incentive-involvement schemes--is largely responsible for Britain's appalling labor relations, and not the so-called leftist shop stewards that the Tory press loves to attack...
...expensive) services. But what sort of a government would inflict nuclear power on its citizens? Governments like those in South Korea, South Africa, and the Philippines, which the U.S. is selling nukes to. Governments like Brazil, Pakistan and Argentina would also like to buy into nukes, and a whole host of other undemocratic regims are interested...
Over at NBC, meanwhile, Tonight Host Johnny Carson loudly complains of fatigue after 17 years at the helm and wants to break out of a contract with two more years to run. Carson's blasts about overwork and diminishing creativity have a strangely familiar sound. Not unlike the media war he waged against NBC two years ago in order to trim his five-a-week live appearances...
...have been a full house but it was certainly an appreciative one attending the opening of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House. For three hours, lunacy reigned withing the austere decor of Dunster dining hall: a long-lost daughter dropped in, a practical businessman dropped out, a host of curious and spurious extramarital relations grew entangled...