Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Macrae is also angry about American industry. The growth of U.S. output per man-hour in manufacturing in the past 25 years has fallen behind that of other industrial nations because of a slowdown of U.S. investment in new technology. American businessmen, like those in Britain, have succumbed to the rule of corporate bureaucrats. The spirit of entrepreneurship is broken...
...during the weeks of Franco's illness most Spaniards seemed determined to go on with business as usual-except for an unusual interest in radio bulletins and newspaper headlines. Last week the bullrings and soccer stadiums were packed, as were the tapas bars of old Madrid. Late-hour diners filled restaurants, feasting on steaming plates of garlic chicken and stuffed squid swimming in its own black ink. Long queues formed outside cinemas featuring The Towering Inferno, and a Beethoven concert series played to sellout houses. Traffic blocked the capital's streets and tourists swarmed through hotel lobbies...
Warm Friendship. Although Ford had met the Egyptian leader only once before-in Salzburg last June-he greeted him with assurances of "warm personal friendship." Later there were two hour-long meetings in the Oval Office. At a state dinner Sadat-who does not dance-was whirled round by Singer Pearl Bailey as part of her act. This week Sadat will meet Ford twice more-at the Jacksonville, Fla., estate of Oil Millionaire Raymond Mason and at the White House; he will also address a joint session of Congress...
...viewers are not very adventurous. They dote on old pals-Marcus, Archie, Dear Little Mary. They have gone through a lot with them and are loyal through thin and thin. They even resent seeing their good buddies shoved out of old time slots. This year the ludicrous family viewing hour forced unprecedented tinkering with new shows and much rescheduling. CBS and NBC compounded this upset with lineups filled with new programs that turned out to be heavy losers. Beacon Hill has already been leveled on Tuesday, and Switch! and Joe and Sons seem destined to go. The story...
...with the publication of a long critical letter in the latest New York Review of Books signed by four of his colleagues at Harvard and an hour of mostly hostile questions during a jammed Thursday afternoon talk at Burr Hall, Wilson is being forced to defend many of the conclusions he reached in Sociobiology...