Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season of beaches and barbecues, the doldrums for much of the nation-but not for Jimmy Carter's sloop of state. The Administration was being buffeted by crosscurrents of criticism on a variety of domestic and foreign issues. None of the President's problems-Bert Lance, the Panama Canal treaty, relations with China, the Middle East, the economy, the thorny question of racial quotas-are near the magnitude of a real crisis. But the problems are numerous enough to raise doubts about the Carter Administration's mastery of the issues that confront it. They have also created...
...Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his so-called moderates celebrated at the eleventh Party Congress. There, Wang also got his reward: he was named one of the four party vice chairmen and placed on the Standing Committee, which runs China's 35 million-member party - and thus the nation itself. Along the way Wang also got a personal encomium from Chairman Hua, who praised the immense internal-security apparatus headed by Wang - singling out its work in keeping "China and its leadership" from falling into the hands of the Gang of Four...
...split widens, the right moves into action. From "Radio-Lutèce," a pirate station in city hall, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, a staunch antiCommunist, makes an appeal to the nation to sabotage government policies. Confusion spreads. Rumors of a sugar shortage, concocted by conservatives hoping to scar the left, send housewives rushing to stores -thus making the shortage real. Giscard survives an assassination attempt. A right-wing general calls for "resistance" and goes underground. Militant ecologists, aroused over the government's commitment to nuclear weapons and power plants, kidnap the Defense Minister...
Invigorated by Silverman's frenzied aggressiveness and unorthodox tactics, ABC?television's perennial also-ran in ratings, revenues and prestige?has all but obliterated its competitors in evening prime time. Last spring, at the end of the 1976-77 season, the network had the nation's four top-rated shows and seven of the top ten. CBS, which had been the premier network since television came of age in the '50s, managed to squeeze only two into the top ten. NBC, the granddaddy of all the networks, was able to place only one on those elevated rungs...
Otherwise the new season will be much like the last, with only a few variations. Violence will be toned down, in response to strong pressure from Congress and the nation's parents. At ABC, even a blood-and-guts show like Starsky and Hutch will supposedly have lighter plots and concentrate on the relationship between the two stars. Comedy will also be in, as will family shows like Family or Eight Is Enough, two of Silverman's favorites...