Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more complacent. Although the Globe boasts some of the best reporters in the country, notably Curtis Willkie in the Washington bureau, its overall editorial direction can only be described as laidback. While the Globe's Lazy-Boy-recliner-and-beer-can-with-TV-tuned-to-the-Red-Sox energy level may do wonders for its reporters' longevity and mid-career heart attack possibilities, Boston is the worse for it in terms of the hustled- and scrambled-for news story...
...Interest rates are nearing their peak, and, though they will continue to rise for the next month or two, they will begin to level out or decline by summer...
...managers commonly charge that middle-level White House staffers responsible for business relations do sloppy, second-rate work. Big Business's formal contact at the White House is Stephen Selig, 36, whose main credentials seem to be that he plays tennis with Presidential Adviser Jordan and that his father, a wealthy Atlanta real estate developer, was a longtime supporter of Carter's. Corporate leaders have had a hard time taking him seriously since his first meeting with them, when Selig turned up at an exclusive Washington club wearing a leisure suit...
...items are sold by "distributors," who are in effect door-to-door salespeople and earn a 30% profit on volume. Usually people with other jobs, they join Amway for extra income. They buy their wares from higher-level "direct distributors," who also sell door to door. Regular distributors are urged to become direct distributors themselves, and they do so by recruiting, training and supervising new salespeople. Though the direct distributor is not paid for signing up these recruits, he does make additional money by selling Amway products at a slight mark up to the distributors under him. To keep sales...
...Mouse record he sings along to is his own, from childhood; the cartoons he shows-including a couple of kindergarten antiprejudice tracts-were long-ago gifts from his grandfather. "The audience," says his collaborator Bob Zmuda, 29, "is asked to become babies again." This is a sort of low-level exercise in primal manipulation that might turn precious, like a Steve Martin extravaganza of silliness. But Kaufman, whether he chooses to acknowledge it or not, is up to something a good deal more ambitious. He is continually questioning, then undermining the idea of what is funny. "Andy takes...