Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comedies that were most likely hatched when someone asked "Wouldn't it be a riot if the camera stayed fixed on the face of a news announcer after he finished reading all his news," or "wouldn't it be funny if a jiggling, big-nosed little puppet named Safety Sam, delivering a public-service commercial about V. D., turned out to be an appropriate piece of anatomy in disguise?" The best answer to these questions is "No, not really...
During the Safety Sam episode, the middle-aged woman told her husband, "That isn't very nice." The problem with this kind of humor isn't so much that it isn't nice, but that it isn't worth the extended treatment Groove Tube lavishes on it. A joke that is very funny in a ten-second quickie sequence can fade after twenty seconds, and be simply annoying after two minutes of development...
...rise in 1966, those relationships became distorted. Savers were penalized and speculators rewarded. People were angered at stockbrokers' taking four vacations a year and plumbers making $20,000; they felt that neither deserved it. "Inflation is a sign that something is terribly unbalanced in society," says Economist Sam Nakagama. "There is normally a relationship between effort and reward. Inflation rewards speculation." But in the recession, the stockbroker may be unemployed and the construction trades are under growing pressure to moderate their demands. "Recession restores a relationship between working and reward...
SQUEEZE LAOS in its more populous western provinces. Communist forces mounted an offensive on the Plain of Jars more than two weeks ago, began to surround Luangprabang, the royal capital, and maintained pressure on Sam Thong and Long Cheng, headquarters of the CIA-backed army of Meo tribesmen...
...employees were laid off last year as firms cut their costs to match their reduced volume. Many of those people have found permanent jobs with banks and insurance companies. If the trading frenzy grows, brokerage back offices "are going to end up in the same predicament again," warns Sam Bard, president of the Committee for Investors' Protection. Plus ça change, Wall Street has yet to prove that it has learned from old errors...