Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken in its two-hour entirety, Harry and Walter is not very tedious...
...does not live by his tympanum alone, and the rest of the movie is, frankly, a mess. There was a decent impulse behind it, namely to make an hour by hour study of how the American and Japanese fleets groped their way toward the naval battle that effectively decommissioned the Japanese navy in World War II. For half an hour or so hope flares temptingly that a film first is in the making - a coherent explanation of how a complex military engagement was actually fought...
...issues other than inflation, the leaders dealt mainly in even vaguer generalities, especially in the final 1,700-word declaration. Though energy was discussed intensely for an hour, the final document included only one sentence on the subject. "We did not want the one countries to think we were ganging up on them," explained one U.S. official. Similarly, in referring to trade problems between the developed and underdeveloped worlds, the leaders expressed themselves only in platitudes. They did, however, reaffirm their determination to complete by the close of 1977 the multilateral trade negotiations, now under way in Geneva, that...
Businessmen charge he is too zealous. Ralph Nader calls him "a public servant who takes his public trust seriously." His own associates merely marvel that one man can do so much; a colleague says he routinely puts in 17-hour days, "going 90 m.p.h. all the way." Stanley Sporkin, 44, sees his task more simply: to throw a spotlight on wrongdoers. He heads the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which brings charges against companies for violations of securities laws and thus polices 9,000 public companies, 3,500 brokerage houses, 3,700 investment advisers...
During one recent hour-long meeting, he mapped out a course in management fraud for Yale Law School (his alma mater) while rewriting some SEC legislation and fielding half a dozen phone calls. Sporkin has also been known to lean back in a meeting with high-powered business executives for ten minutes of closed-eye contemplation that uncannily resembles sleep-and then deliver a machine-gun burst of pointed questions...