Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schizoid demands of his position. Is his primary task to make profits for shareholders, who consist not just of the Rockefeller family (they control only about 1% of the stock) but also of union pension funds, investment trusts, and more than 600,000 everyday investors? Or is his main job, as Exxon's advertisements imply, to be a defender of the national security? As Garvin told TIME Correspondent John Tompkins, in an observation that no Exxon chief would have made as recently as five years ago: "I accept that we are in some sense 'different' and that Government is going...
...cable. For an additional $8 to $10 a month, a subscriber gets a decoder box. It unscrambles pictures transmitted over a special channel by a for-cable-only programming company that sells its service to the local cable operator. Main offerings: recent movies, some of the quality of Annie Hall, The Turning Point and The Goodbye Girl, often shown just after they have finished running in local theaters; sports events (e.g., a U.S.-Soviet track meet not carried on regular TV or even basic cable); and entertainment specials, often Las Vegas-type revues built around a single star such...
...tended to be quite as high in cities where they faced cable competition as in areas that cable has not yet reached. Nor is cable cutting into the flow of network advertising dollars ($4.1 billion last year). Pay cable, of course, makes the absence of commercials one of its main selling points. The advertising on basic cable is heavily local, though a few national advertisers do appear...
...problems, the cable industry's leaders are producing a business success story that, if it were a show, would be billed as an extravaganza. The industry has three main branches: cable companies, called MSOs (for multiple-system operators); programming companies; and equipment suppliers. All are booming...
Even so, many priests and bishops in Brazil balked when a lay comunidad member in 1976 announced that "the days when the priest was the main one" were over. Others in Latin American Christendom are likely to be troubled by a declaration at weekly Mass by Volta Redonda's French priest Jacques Duquesne that "faith should not be seen as the burden of the Cross, but rather as faith in a better world." Such apparent doctrinal distortions may have been what prompted Pope John Paul II during his Mexican trip to urge the Latin American clergy to be "priests...