Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Premier Giulio Andreotti made a deliberate effort to show that the government was operating as usual. He conducted meetings on the economy and distributed a promised economic policy report. This week he will receive Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis in Rome, then travel to a Common Market summit meeting in Copenhagen. Said a Cabinet official: "The greatest danger of the kidnaping is that the normal activity of the government might be diverted. To forget the economy would be to play into the hands of the terrorists...
...lawyers. In the past 15 years, the number of U.S. lawyers has increased from 296,000 to 462,000. Law school enrollments have more than doubled in the same period, from 54,000 to 126,000. Every year more than 30,000 new attorneys are pumped into the job market. Says somebody who ought to know, U.S. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger: "We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated...
...memory. Altogether, some 9,200 magazines are published in the U.S., and most provide at least some work for freelancers. It is usually cheaper to rely on them than to maintain stables of salaried staff writers. But the number of contributors is outstripping the growth-and quality-of the market. Everybody seems to be freelancing: housewives, public relations men, professors, reporters, the growing army of jobless journalism graduates. Circulation of Writer's Digest, a how-to monthly for such dining-table dilettantes, has leaped by 17% in the past year and a half...
...barricades failed to contain the drifting slicks. Emergency crews were reluctant to use detergents to break up the oil because they feared long-term toxic effects on marine life. Instead, fishermen worked day and night to move valuable oysters and scallops to other waters or to rush them to market...
...good fee. He had vision, yes, the kind of vision that knows a profit when it smells one. Alan Freed, and all the disc jockeys and record company executives who pushed rock and roll in the '50s did it because they saw that there was a huge market for music that offended all the stuffy middle-class sensibilities that American parents stood for, sensibilities that bored the bobby socks off American teenagers...