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Word: jonesism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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As industrial melodrama, a product not known to sell many tickets, the thing starts out simply enough: Loren Hardeman Sr., 86, founder of the Bethlehem Motor Co. back in the heroic days of car manufacturing, is tired of vegetating down in Florida. He wants to make his comeback by manufacturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gas Guzzler | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

With production heading higher, unemployment dropping and profits climbing, businessmen by all rights ought to be bullish. Quite the opposite: last week brought two new signs that they are still deeply worried. The stock market, that sometimes distorted mirror of investment hopes and fears, tumbled 22 points, as measured by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Realistic Lack of Confidence | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

COMING HOME Directed by Hal Ashby Screenplay by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Dark at the End off the Tunnel | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Sam Houston Jones, 80, former Governor of Louisiana (1940-44) who defeated Earl Long, Huey's brother and political successor, thereby ending a twelve-year, scandal-ridden dynasty; of kidney failure; in Lake Charles, La. During his term, Jones cut the state payroll by one-third and reorganized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Carril's resume--not that he needs to have one, mind you--is simply awesome. Ivy titles in 1969, '76 and '77, and the NIT title in 1974. Upset wins versus North Carolina (a 16-pointer, with McAdoo and Jones playing for the opposition), Notre Dame, South Carolina, Oregon, Providence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pete Carril Keeps on Pluggin' | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

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