Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force. Once dormant FM stations now compete for AM's vast audience, who are mostly disc-hungry teen-agers with money to burn. Orgasmic rock, which flourishes on singles, does not outsell everything else; the top records are soft, romantic rock albums. But when a company wants to launch an unknown or bolster a flagging group, the trick is to slip into an album a throbbing rhythm-and-blues number that can be made into a single for repeated Top 40 AM airings...
...even talking of an end-of-year buying splurge by holiday revelers at home and abroad. Failing that, all is still not lost. "After all," muses Jacques de Vriese, export director of the large Moët & Chandon company, "people will still need champagne for weddings and to launch boats...
Nonetheless, the U.S., along with other First World nations, concedes that there is a real grievance behind the angry rhetoric. This week representatives of both rich and poor states will gather in Paris for a conference that could launch a lengthy review of the complex policies affecting world trade, energy and economic development...
Even though as provost he had to enforce painful budget cuts, Wilson is popular with the faculty. He already had a run-in with leaders of the student government, however, after they told him last month that they were going to launch an "investigation" of Economics Professor Milton Friedman and his ties with economists in the Chilean junta. A vigorous defender of academic freedom, Wilson replied that he would not tolerate an inquisition. In other matters, Wilson is also a stout individualist; he even turns out to watch Chicago's largely ignored football games...
...defensive lineman's primary objective was to come out of the rumble stopping the run. No longer. Faced with increasingly sophisticated passing attacks, the interior defensive line must now think first about rushing the passer. To do that, which requires them to overcome powerful, oversize blocking linemen who launch the offensive attack, front fours operate as a team with complicated strategies of their...