Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire movie industry may well have missed the point on the bonanza of Star Wars [Aug. 22]: the reason for the success of Wars is not the sci-fi appeal; it is the fun of the movie. Star Wars is a movie of today, like the romantic movies of yesteryear...
Even so, the Administration will not lose that battle for lack of trying. Selling the treaty is the top item on the President's agenda-an all-out effort to score a clear-cut foreign policy success amid a series of setbacks. "Carter is deploying his lieutenants the way George Gordon Meade did at Gettysburg," says a Pentagon officer who has briefed Congressmen on the treaty. "And that was a hell of a fight...
Carter scored a striking success in moving much of his energy program through the House under the guidance of Tip O'Neill. But in the Senate he faces opposition from Finance Chairman Russell Long, who claims there is no energy shortage. It is all there in the ground, Long argues-oil, shale, coal and gas-ready to be extracted if private industry is given incentives like price deregulation...
...major network executives, with experience in research, sales, promotion, as well as programming, Pierce moved deftly to take advantage of his rivals' confusion. Almost immediately he tried to hire Silverman away from CBS. It took a while, but finally, in May 1975, Silverman crossed the street. Silverman's own success is tied to Pierce's, and, together, the two form the best team...
...succeed. The other guy has to fail." Silverman says somewhat the same thing, but less bluntly: "I think there is a philosophy that is good no matter what you are doing. That is to always act as if you're in last place. You just shouldn't take success for granted, because you can turn around one day and say, 'My Lord, it is all gone...