Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would seem that with the billions we spend for defense, the Navy would not have to desecrate the holy grounds of Hawaii's Kahoolawe [Aug. 8] for their bombing practice. Let them sharpen their skills in the local bar on the popular electronic games...
...deal was crucial because the Palestinians are at the core of a Middle East peace settlement. The continuing holdout of the rejectionists, notably the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, headed by hard-lining George Habash, had muddled the Palestinian position. Although the Israelis still accuse them of it, most Palestinian leaders have long since given up the idea of driving Israel into the sea. Lately, even their hazy notion of a secular state of Palestine embracing Arabs, Jews and Christians has also faded (although Israel's Begin, if he manages to annex the West Bank...
...fate of the treaty in the U.S. is less certain. Commitment to a U.S.-controlled canal is deeply embedded in popular sentiment and skillfully exploited by such conservative Republican Senators as Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Helms flaunts a recent poll of 1,011 adult Americans by the Opinion Research Corporation, showing 78% for keeping the canal, only 14% willing to cede it to Panama. Yet the survey does not specify the conditions under which the U.S. might relinquish the canal...
...India last week, Coca-Cola was fast becoming more than the most popular soft drink in the country; it was turning into two four-letter words. Climaxing a four-year campaign against multinational companies in general and Coca-Cola in particular, the government in effect demanded that Coke turn over its secret drink formulas and 60% of its operations to Indian investors by next April or be expelled from the subcontinent. Minister for Industry George Fernandes, a leftist labor leader installed in his post by the new Janata Party government, charged that Coke was taking far more money...
...headquarters). He is also a confident gambler. He gambled millions on the 1976 Olympics, and made that sprawling assortment of track meets, wrestling and swimming contests a prime-time commercial success. Chronology and coherence may have been sacrificed as he zeroed in on the flashiest contests and concentrated on popular favorites, switching relentlessly from one arena to another, but the result was exciting television. Arledge liked the way his sportscaster Jim McKay "in the 30 seconds between two events could add a dimension, a fact, a clarification." To Arledge, the news anchorman's function, "if there is a function...