Word: scheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economists--Bruce Scheer, an expert on agriculture, and Jay Siegel, an income and age pattern analyst--also resigned last week...
...Virginia Scheer Cincinnati
...hottest new product in home recreation," says Division Director Harold Roberts of Brunswick Corp., which makes Super Star and Skate King. "This is the Age of the Pinball!" exults Ross Scheer, an executive of Bally Manufacturing Corp., which makes Evel Knievel, one of the hottest games on the street. Worldwide sales of pins over the past five years have grown by up to 30% annually. Also booming are pinball rentals (at up to $135 a day) to party throwers, organizers of company picnics, and families who want to try a fast sample of the action. Used, reconditioned machines fetch...
Keeping Secrets. The sea of information that Scheer imagines floating through Georgetown drawing rooms is not all that tidal, or ignored; access journalists fish rewardingly in such waters. Scheer seems to have confused "off the record" (which cannot be printed) with "not for attribution," where the sources cannot be named. But he nonetheless thinks the Washington press elite too cosily keeps secrets it should...
...editor, Bill Thomas, still admires Scheer's abilities but "can't agree with his right to break confidences or to reveal sources he promised not to reveal. He's not going to behave that way in work he does for us, and we're not going to print anything got that way." Scheer says: "I accept the rules, I accept the restraints." He does not think he has been co-opted, even if the Times job did enable him at the age of 40 to buy the first real bed he has ever owned. He happily...