Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Douglas's standard reply to criticisms from the nuclear industry is that they haven't seen the film and he "was just trying to make a really good thriller." In that ambition, Douglas admits, he may have succeeded all too well. "The China Syndrome" will scare people and the nuclear power industry because it not only works as a thriller, but also is highly realistic and convincing...
Fonda, a "Happy news" reporter seeking a more substantial story, goes with cameraman Douglas to film a special at a nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles where Lemmon is the control-room supervisor. While getting the standard tour from the plant's public relations man, buzzers ring, bells clang, the control panel lights up like a Christmas tree gone berserk, and the building shakes. Clearly, something is wrong...
...happy to answer questions about the assessment of the costs of this policy, suffice it to say that we are talking about excluding, as a matter of policy, a set of companies which taken in the aggregate constitute roughly 46 per cent of the market value of the Standard & Poor's 500, which is the set of large, well-managed, high capitalization companies in the United States economy...
Erratic or not, Chéreau's solutions will set the standard of comparison for the many full-length productions that are sure to follow. The problematic third act has been from the start one of the opera world's chief prizes and puzzles. World War II brought an inhospitable climate for productions of Lulu, since the Nazis regarded it as entartete Kunst (decadent art), but thereafter it began to enter the international repertory. Approaches to other composers about finishing the third act had ended inconclusively. Opera managers vied for the chance to present the first complete performance...
...seeds of the deal germinated last month over a dinner that Iacocca had with his longtime friend Kelmenson. By the time Kelmenson reached for the check, Iacocca had dangled before him a 26% increase in domestic billings and a five-year no-cut contract instead of the standard 90-day termination agreement...