Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sony based its defense on the argument that copyright law permits home recording and that the "privacies of life" must be protected from government intrusion. In the words of the company's general counsel, Ira Gomberg, "A consumer has the right to do what he wants in his own home. If he wants to watch the 6 o'clock news at 10 o'clock, he has that right." That was Judge Ferguson's view too. "There is no way, nor should there be," he said, "for plaintiffs to limit the availability of alternatives to television viewing...
...truck. This scene is long and harrowing, brutal and humiliating, and feminist Director Bellon does not blink at showing us, in excruciating detail, every moment of Nicole's ordeal. Indeed, one comes to admire the fortitude of Actress Nell in playing a scene that must have been almost as terrible to film as an actual rape would be to endure. Yet the sequence has value, revealing through the action of the rapists rather than through abstract discussion the psychology of this sort of criminal, which centers on the need to victimize and abase. It also reveals, as no other...
...scenes in which traditional female stereotyping is imposed on young girls. One is put down for wanting to be a railroad engineer when she grows up, another not permitted to be a bank robber in a cops-and-robbers game, but told by the little boys that she must be the teller-victim. Children's drawings show women as housewives, while men are portrayed as the movers and shakers of the world...
...changes in price. In just four weeks, gold leaped from $330 per oz. to hit $447, only to lose half that impressive gain by the end of last week. Anyone who plunged in for a quick killing at the wrong moment got badly hurt. Small investors in gold also must pay a sales commission of 6% to 10% when buying the metal from banks, brokers or jewelers. In addition, there is often an equal-sized charge when reselling...
Managers, secretaries and production workers are painfully aware that when they get a pay raise, the extra dollars that they take home after taxes rarely begin to cover the increased costs they must bear. In the past year, as a result of the ravages of double-digit inflation, real incomes have fallen on average by more than 4%. What is less obvious is that the squeeze on purchasing power has become as much of a problem for employers as for employees...