Word: majority
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...from Tupelo, Miss., appeared on the American music scene when young people's musical tastes were on the verge of a major change. The older generation was not yet wary of teenagers. The kids had no music of their own. They had yet to take over the fashion world...
...Russia figured out how to manufacture things anyone wants to buy, so its foreign-currency earnings come mostly from sales of oil and gas. Falling oil prices mean more cash shortages and still another unexpected problem. Last week the Russian government hoped to sell off a major oil corporation, Rosneft, and earn $2.1 billion, but there were no bidders...
...upped the ante by being as immediate as radio and as visual as the movies. Indeed, TV's mesmerizing hold is something unprecedented. A major TV event is overwhelmingly a shared national experience, and a TV star is a celebrity of a new order. When Lucy Ricardo has a baby, when Seinfeld goes off the air, it's not something that's happening out there--it's an event in our homes and in our lives...
...GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY (1936) This study was John Maynard Keynes' major work. Not intended for the public, it had vast public consequences. By positing that government spending could revive sagging economies, Keynes rewrote the rules of free-market capitalism...
...make the Great American Movie. But a year later, with Jaws, Spielberg changed the course of modern Hollywood history. Jaws was a hit of vast proportions, inspiring executives to go for the home run instead of the base hit. And it came out in the summer, a season the major studios had generally ceded to cheaper exploitation films. Within a few years, the Jaws model would inspire an industry in which budgets ran wild because the rewards seemed limitless, in which summer action pictures dominated the industry and in which the hottest young directors wanted to make the Great American...