Word: omni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miners also complain about union inertia during this year's successful effort to get a bill through the West Virginia legislature compensating them for black lung, an irreversible condition that results from inhaling coal dust. Led by three coal-country physicians and joined by Congressman Ken Hechler and omni-purpose crusader Ralph Nader, most of the state's 43,000 miners walked off their jobs in a three-week wildcat strike and marched on the state capitol bearing a coffin...
...general, but he found them too diffuse to handle and decided to focus on the single incident. Even so, the episode, as he describes it, "is so complex, the cast of characters so huge, that I simply could not assume the author's usual stance of divine omni science." So he tells the story mostly in the words of the witnesses and makes his own observations in the form of ironic subheads. It took him about six weeks to win the confidence of the participants. The time was well spent, for the subjects ultimately revealed to Hersey much more...
...midst of debate on the omni bus civil rights bill, Louisiana's Democratic Representative Edward Hebert gazed forlornly at the empty places about him, got up, and wondered aloud where his Southern colleagues were at such an important time...
...Very High-Frequency Omni-Range), which requires land-based transmitters, can guide a transatlantic liner for only 150 miles over the ocean. VOR is useful chiefly just after take-off and just before landing...
...Obsolete. Saudek Associates started at the top. Most of its members were with the Ford Foundation's Omni bus, founded their own firm three years ago when Ford pulled out, ran the show successfully for NBC. This season, NBC decided that the spate of specials would make the program obsolete. Rarely has a network been so wrong. Last week No. 1 Associate Robert Saudek quietly released the news that Omnibus will return to the air next season...