Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farm team for Hollywood, Hill and Weingrad have righted that misconception. S.N.L. was bodacious and irreverent, brazen enough to make everything else on the networks seem irrelevant. If Michaels' current edition of S.N.L. seems to be struggling hard with some heavy freight, Saturday Night shows what is inside the load: memories of breakaway comedy from real glory days. The book is better than reruns. It is also a reminder--timely, but perhaps unwelcome for an old show trying to find new footing--that S.N.L. has made a little television history, and left a lot to live...
With a cold eye and a fine sense of irony, Pileggi records the underside of industry as his informer dashes from scheme to scam, driving from North Carolina to New York with a load of untaxed cigarettes, delivering stolen cars for shipment to Haiti, reburying a murdered colleague whose resting place is threatened by a new housing development. Hill forms no permanent friendships and makes no future plans. Everything is for the moment, and associates, even those who gave him a hand, are betrayed for the sake of the bigger payoff, the easier deal. Only at home is life...
...almost any unionized company, cuts like these would have raised the specter of an immediate strike, but not at Eastern. Weeks ago the flight attendants' union pledged that it would not strike before March. Reason: Eastern is staggering under a $2.5 billion debt load, and its creditors have threatened to call in some of those loans on Feb. 28 if the airline has not substantially reduced its labor costs by then. If the loans are not renewed, Eastern could be forced into bankruptcy proceedings. The company's employees, who hold two seats on the board of directors, know...
BUSINESS NOTES RETAILING COUPONS FOR THE COMPUTER AGE BUNDLED TOGETHER AND STUFFED INTO WALLETS OR PURSES. NOW DISCOUNT COUPONS, WHICH ARE USED BY SOME 80% OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD OF GROCERY BILLS, ARE ENTERING THE HIGH-TECH ERA. MANY SHOPPERS IN THE NEW YORK, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES AREAS CAN GET COUPONS QUICKLY AND NEATLY FROM NEW COMPUTERIZED...
...twelve-mile territorial limit, but the Britannia, as a hospital ship, was permitted to enter the port of Aden. Britons and non-Britons alike were stirred when the Queen's yacht, its Royal Marine band playing Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia, reached Djibouti with the first load of 350 evacuees of 42 nationalities, including mainland Chinese. In the course of the week, the Britannia evacuated 1,082 foreigners from Aden before resuming its voyage to New Zealand...