Word: ince
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Carter's populism emerged before a notably elite audience last week-the beautiful people of Hollywood. He attended a fund-raising dinner for 60 movie moguls and businessmen at the opulent mansion of Lew Wasserman, board chairman of MCA Inc., a show biz conglomerate. Later, accompanied by California's Governor Jerry Brown, Carter starred at a reception given by Actor Warren Beatty at the swank Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Waiting to play Gucci-footsie with the Georgia peanut farmer were the likes of Diana Ross, Louise Lasser, Peter Falk, Carroll O'Connor and Faye Dunaway. Responding to Beatty...
...behind, but three out of four voters expect the contest to be down to the wire, and a variety of indicators support their viewpoint. Such are the findings of a nationwide telephone survey of 1,544 registered voters, conducted by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. between...
...consumer groups as are the corporations he repeatedly attacks. Nader does, for example, refuse to divulge the names of all contributors to his causes, contending he does not want them harassed. Sanford further claims, convincingly, that despite Nader's poor-mouthing, his major lobbying organization, Public Citizen Inc., had a net worth of $1.3 million as of 1974, the date of its most recent public report...
Similarly, in July a Brooklyn jury hit Howard Johnson's Motor Lodges, Inc. with a $2.5 million damage award to Singer Connie Francis, who was raped at knife point in a company motel on Long Island. The six-man panel found that the motel had failed to put the singer in a "safe and secure room...
...rates at many resorts have increased by 80% or more. Though occupancy rates in the resort industry as a whole have been rising lately, they remain low in many places, which means that costly facilities are not always in full use. Says Tom Perine, president of Vacation Planning Inc. of Richmond, Ill., the largest timesharing promoter in the U.S.: "Timesharing in the computer industry was the only cost-effective way to utilize superexpensive equipment. We are bringing that concept to resorts...