Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, NBC has already announced that the start of its new season will be postponed for at least two weeks; the other networks could be forced to follow suit. Such favorites as The Odd Couple, Mannix and Mission: Impossible are likely to be affected. Others, however, will not be, since they are produced by independent production companies. Some 150 independents- which produce from 25% to 50% of prime- time programming - have settled with the writers. As a result, such shows as All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Maude will be ready to start the fall season...
...such as banks and pension funds. Last year, the number of stock owners in the U.S. declined for the first time since the N.Y.S.E. began counting in 1952, and holders of mutual-fund shares sold more than they bought for the first time since record keeping began in 1941. Odd-lotters, who trade fewer than 100 shares at a clip, withdrew a whopping $2.3 billion from the stock market last year...
...told to play with each other rather than with outsiders, and while unmarried carnie women are no longer forbidden to go into town without a male carnie escort, they are discouraged from getting to know anyone in the towns they visit. Carnie protectiveness toward women can take some odd forms: Although male carnies permit their wives to perform as strippers, they are unwilling to let other carnie men ogle them; thus girlie shows are off limits to carnival...
...some 200 London investment groups have lined up for a piece of the stock. Creditors of the old Rolls-Royce Ltd., which went bust in 1971, may be less pleased. They will get the proceeds from the stock sale, but those will fall far short of clearing the $300-odd million in debts that the company ran up building advanced-design aircraft engines. Payment of the rest will have to await a settlement from the British government, which nationalized the jet-engine operation...
...fact, many people thought the Nieman choice of beneficiary rather odd. The Boston Globe noted that "Harvard not only had no hint that the Nieman millions were coming its way, but it was difficult to find anyone at Harvard who knew anything about the Milwaukee publishing family which left Harvard one of the largest legacies in its long history...