Word: richards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growth of pension fund benefits in an era of double-digit inflation will be difficult but inevitable. Without some moderate increase in the burden on current workers combined with some decrease in benefits for current and future retirees, the fate of many pension programs is grimly clear. Says Richard Roeder, a pension analyst in Detroit: "For the Hamtramcks of this country, no one has an ark. The flood will come...
...scoops up Jonathan Livingston Seagull from under the nose of Barbie. The American Broadcasting Cos., which built the hottest TV network in the industry with pop hits like Mork & Mindy, last week sprang a surprise bid to acquire Macmillan, Inc., the old-line publishing conglomerate that brought out Richard Bach's 1970 bestseller about a mythical seagull. In doing so, the big broadcaster (1978 revenues: $1.8 billion) upset merger talks that had been going on between Macmillan and Mattel, Inc., the California-based toymaker that grew big on sales of Barbie dolls but which is still less than...
...Richard W. Lyman, Stanford University president: "As our distrust of institutions and their leaders becomes overwhelming, we leave the way open either to bureaucratic force majeure or to demagoguery...
...Richard M. Nixon, in a new introduction to his 1962 Six Crises that adds Watergate as a dismal seventh: "History will justifiably record that my handling of the Watergate crisis was an unmitigated disaster...
...43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" was a surprise attack on the genteel New Yorker magazine and its shy, venerated editor, William Shawn. A shocked cultural establishment struck back. An outraged Joseph Alsop and E.B. White called Wolfe's piece brutal, misleading and irresponsible. Richard Goodwin sent a bolt from the White House. "I didn't think I'd survive," says Wolfe, "but it taught me a lesson. You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested...