Word: inces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rearrange" their viewing hours, said Judge Ferguson; they will "play their tapes when there is nothing on television they wish to see and no movie they want to attend." Moreover, the court noted, production of television programs by the plaintiffs, Universal City Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of MCA Inc., and Walt Disney Productions, "is more profitable than it has ever been ... there was no concrete evidence to suggest that the Betamax will change the studios' financial picture." However, MCA, now beginning to market its own video discs, prerecorded shows also intended for the home screen, was worried about...
...would need to be given only, say, 2%. But with living costs soaring, pressures are high to grant underachievers heftier raises at the expense of the overachievers, so that many people wind up with increases in the 6% to 8% range. Laments Bruce Ellig, a compensation specialist at Pfizer Inc., the pharmaceutical firm: "The result is to reward mediocrity and stifle the encouragement of improved performance...
...Richmond Sept. 13. Last week, with an entourage of 50 (choir, soloists, sound technicians, a bodyguard), he went to Columbus, and Harrisburg, Pa. This week it will be Albany. In cooperation with Washington-based New Right political groups, he has just organized his first purely secular enterprise, Moral Majority Inc., and plans to hit all 50 states within 18 months. He sees Moral Majority as a much needed antidote to progressive public interest organizations like Common Cause. Senior Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett traveled with Falwell during the first week of his campaign. Barrett's report...
...little more than two years, to the astonishment of the financial world, the corporate campaign has driven Stevens' chairman from the boards of Manufactures Hanover, Inc. and New York Life, forced the resignation of a second director from Man Hanny and compelled two outside directors to resign from the Stevens board. Rogers' campaign is so effective that Stevens' director of public relations calls it the financial equivalent of "knee-capping"--the tactic used by Italian terrorists to immobilize political and corporate leaders...
Rogers says his major skill, and the key to running down Stevens' directors, is organization, not labor leading. He claims his founding of a Vista anti-poverty group called "Human Love in Action," and his successful drives to unionize Farah Manufacturing Company, Inc. and the Yale Coop helped to shape the concept of the corporate campaign. But Rogers' thoughts and actions are as much influenced by his past as they are by Saul Alinsky and his book "Rules for Radicals." He directs the campaign against Stevens directors adhering to Alinsky's proposition that "it is not man's 'better nature...