Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense, allowed to us, that the store was partly our own. We helped decide how Steve's would evolve, and we therefore became intensely attached to the place--proud of it, and willing to worry over the hundred little decisions that keep coming up as you try to sustain a little working community that is good...
...side-splitting beginning and a sentimental ending with a lot of dreck in between are not the best ingedients for the definitive Gene Wilder film. There is neither enough originality nor direction to sustain this movie. Those fans who hoped it would symbolize Wilder's break with his past will be disappointed. Had Wilder decided at the outset just how much and what kind of comedy to use, his final result might have been more consistent and much more memorable...
Real G.N.P. will rise 4.6%-an increase that is above the rate the economy can sustain year after year, but no more than adequate in the present situation to repair the ravages of the last recession. The rate of rise may decline to 4.2% or so by year's end, but a big cut in individual and corporate income taxes will keep anything like a recession from developing-next year anyway...
...ensure the continuity of PIRG efforts, student members must be able to guarantee some measure of employment security to PIRG professional staff. Furthermore, Mass PIRG tackles problems that require ample time and resources for solution. A fairly automatic fund-generating system is needed to sustain such efforts. In addition, PIRG wants to involve students in actual research and lobbying rather than draining their energies into fund raising year after year. A majority-supported negative check-off funding mechanism enables such a PIRG to exist; a positive check-off system does...
Technical excellence and a shrewd appreciation of its customers' needs helped the International Business Machines Corp. capture most of the world computer market. But critics charge that IBM's policy of controlling all aspects of operations, from manufacturing to maintenance, has unfairly helped to sustain its dominance. That policy got IBM into trouble with the U.S. Justice Department, which in 1969 charged the company with monopolistic practices in a suit that is now in the trial stage. Last week officials in another country-India-discovered just how dear IBM holds its 100% philosophy. Rather than allow a minority...