Word: scale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have thrown yet another overflowing bedpan in the face of nursing. I did not enter the field seeking to make big bucks or to become a pseudo physician. Most of my fellow nurses and I wish only a wage scale in line with our training and responsibilities and the opportunity to practice the most basic human care services we have been trained to deliver...
...consulting firms hired by the Senate Budget Committee concluded that the President's goal of 2 million bbl. of synthetic fuels a day in ten years was unrealistic and potentially wasteful. The consultants advised that it would make more sense to try several different approaches on a modest scale and then decide which ones were feasible...
Mary Martin was the first Peter Pan to sing and dance in a full-scale musical. She repeated the role several times on television, and for millions the part will always be hers. But for those seeing the play for the first time, Sandy Duncan will probably seem equally inevitable as the boy who refuses to grow up. Underneath her male costume, Martin was clearly a woman; the difference is not so apparent with Duncan, who is, in fact, closer to James M. Barrie's original conception. Her Peter is androgynous, part boy, part tomboy. As she plays...
Peter Yates' PG Breaking Away returns to the old formula. Against a tide of cinematic drivel, Yates and a few other directors are making a stand with small-scale movies which make up in honesty for what they lack in monumentality and pyrotechnics. Cheered on by his audiences and lauded by critics, Yates, with a movie about bicycles, has out-distanced power-driven, Dolbyized, super-slick monsters like Rocky II and smug, summer-hyped star vehicles like Meatballs...
...turns out," truth-in-testing advocate McLean says. "We won't know anything definite until the law goes into effect January 1," admissions official Geraghty declares, "We need to see how this works out before we go ahead and do it on a larger scale," pleads ETS's Churchill. Only Malkin is making concrete predictions: "It should be interesting," he says...