Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweeten the deal even further, NBC also reduced Carson's work load. Johnny, a pioneer of the four-day week, now does his late-night talk show 38 weeks a year. In the future, said NBC, he will have to work only three days a week for 25 weeks and four days for 13 weeks. If you want to divide that with the calculator you got for Christmas, you will come up with Johnny's hourly salary?$13,123. There's more than one way to beat inflation, eh, Arthur Burns...
...weeks, a crew of red-suited blowout experts battled to cap the wild well. A crane removing a ten-ton piece of wellhead plumbing was smashed like a Tinkertoy, when the gas jet tossed the load into the air. The crew succeeded in diverting the gas to an open pit, where they set it ablaze to prevent an accidental explosion. By the end of September, workers managed to pipe the gas through a purifying plant and into a pipeline, through which it flowed at an uncontrolled rate of 140 million cu. ft. per day. Says Chevron's Exploration Manager...
...parades on one of a dozen color TVs in the house. He invites us to join him. The dogs, meanwhile, are about to be fed. On an enormous expanse of counter the housekeeper has arranged an awesome array of king-size doggie dishes each of which she proceeds to load with at least two cans of Alpo. The dogs all stand around the kitchen, watching contentedly. As she places the dishes on the floor, each dog pairs up with its own dish and the room fills with the sound of happy mastication. Everytime a dog finishes, it is rewarded with...
There's an oddly balanced load of ideology here, and a few other touches that are not right for the Thunderbird-and-chicken-wings film this seems to be. When the Lonette McKee character agrees to live with Leroy, for instance, she plays the scene with Mediterranean fire in her eye and makes him promise never to sleep with another woman. That's not Los Angeles in 1977, and sure enough, it turns out that Which Way Is Up? is an adaptation of Lina Wertmuller's 1972 comedy The Seduction of Mimi, which is set in Sicily...
...crowded Reno and Lake Tahoe casinos, where $2 billion changes hands each year, security guards crawl along steel catwalks and watch for cheaters through one-way ceiling mirrors. Near by, cashiers match bingo winners against a computerized list of more than 4,000 cards. Players who switch cards, load dice or pinch bets pose a constant threat to profitability. So does the danger of thievery by employees: to discourage theft, cash from the company's 3,900 gaming tables and slot machines is counted under the watchful eye of closed-circuit television cameras. To prevent overstaffing in the casinos...