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...relatively new phenomenon--at least criticism that goes beyond the daily newspapers or the T.V. Guide's promo columns. That started happening as television became more sophisticated or, at least, more technologically sophisticated. Once t.v. evolved into something beyond the simple transmission of stage plays--when video, mini-cams, and that all-important ability to edit came into the scene--the force of the medium creeped into the national consciousness. With books like Joe McGinnis's The Selling of the President 1968, people began suspecting that television had some extraordinary power. Then came the Vietnam broadcasts, the moon shots...
...barrel of crude they pumped, or since oil companies such as Exxon, Mobil Oil and Gulf Oil suffered from declining profits and bulging inventories. But that is precisely the situation in the suddenly upside-down world oil market. Skyrocketing prices and sagging demand have brought on a continuing petroleum mini-glut...
...production or not, oil-consuming nations can hardly rest easy. Temporary surpluses in 1978 and 1980 quickly evaporated after the outbreak of the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. A pickup of the U.S. and European economies and the resulting increased demand for oil would wipe out the mini-glut just as quickly this time. Says Ulf Lantzke, director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency: "We are in balance at the moment, but it is a rather fragile balance." With some 60% of world oil reserves buried under the sands of the always volatile Middle East, world...
...Activities of businessmen who are central characters in shows are frequently negative, mostly clownish. Archie Bunker, who now owns a bar in Archie Bunker's Place, philosophizes that the best way to cut the crime rate in half is for every person to shoot one criminal; Dry Cleaning Mini-Tycoon George Jefferson of The Jeffersons emerges as an intellectual cipher, trapped in matriarchy. Even when businessmen are written into a plot on a one-shot basis, they are, in most cases, up to no good; only 6%-three of 49-were presented in a favorable light...
...affairs director Kilt Andrews insists. But the stout-hearted State of Mainer, who hailed from the Bethel area, possessed at least a little savvy when it came to business. His chamois shirts, his touring canoes and campstoves, and most of all his Maine hunting boots supported a $4.75-million mini-empire when he expired...