Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interests of the poor and oppressed at heart. By exerting their monopoly power, unions have been a major factor in promoting both inflation and unemployment, neither of which are in the interest of the poor. Those who really are concerned for the poor would do better to look elsewhere. Raymond...
...American Dream to examine the darker sides of the American psyche: corruption, jealousy, greed, obsessive hate, and murder became crucial themes. Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, showing in the Orson Welles's film noir festival is in many ways a perfect example of the genre. Written by Raymond Chandler, it stars Barbara Stanwyck as the sexy but neglected housewife who seduces an insurance salesman into helping her murder her husband to collect the settlement. The languorous turns of the plot combine with the shadowy camera work to create a sordid, shabby world of moral decay...
Starting the Clock. New York City has a more urgent motive for quitting: the need to balance its books after its close brush with bankruptcy. Columbia University Professor Raymond Morton, staff director of a commission on city finances, concluded that New York could save as much as $183 million a year by leaving the Social Security system for two years and setting up its own program to provide death and disability benefits. But a temporary pullout would require permission from Congress, so Beame decided to "start the clock running" on the two-year notice period for a permanent defection...
...Chicago (circ. 140,000) began life 24 years ago as Chicago Guide, a supermarket giveaway that listed radio programs of the city's classical music station, WFMT. In 1971, Publisher Raymond Nordstrand, 43, who came to Chicago from WFMT (he is still its station manager), decided to add articles and start selling the magazine to the public. Since then it has become one of the fattest books in the country. Today, a typical 230-page issue carries more than 100 pages of advertising. Last year Nordstrand dropped the "Guide" from Chicago's title. But on the inside, Chicago...
Last January Mobil executives were invited to be interviewed for the series. They kept putting off an appearance until it was too late, explaining in the ad that they did not want their remarks to be edited. Said Mobil Spokesman Raymond D'Argenio: "We've been screwed too many times by people coming in here, talking to us for a half-hour or an hour and then excerpting two minutes of one of our guys scratching his nose...