Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There or Here. Oilman has returned to his old job at the San Diego station. "I came back from the trial prepared to take the consequences," he says, "prepared to be fired, but it's been two and a half weeks now and nothing has happened. I told the news director at the station that I didn't think that what I had done would affect my work." Despite criticism from his colleagues, Oilman adds: "I would do it all over again...
...conflict with his Roman superiors started only recently, when he called for reforms beyond the monastery. All priests, he preached, should take a sabbatical year during which they could decide whether to change their lives and marry or return to their vocations. He refused to accept any new novices as long as service in the church was not "defined with sufficient clarity...
...figure out whether or not movements in interest rates and bank reserves indicate that the Federal Reserve has actually altered policy. The Administration's policymakers recognize the danger that any shift may be too slow and too gradual to head off a recession, but they seem prepared to take the risk in order to break inflationary psychology. They feel that they are practicing a form of brinkmanship...
OKUN: Federal pay is a real scary area now, given the attitude in Congress and the pressures of the unions. Let us take another simple thing like fair trade. If we could repeal the fair-trade laws that allow some manufacturers to fix retail prices, that action alone could reduce the consumer price index by an estimated three-tenths of 1%. Then there are oil imports and the whole range of policies regarding agriculture, which have important price implications...
Barrage of Sights. What Sesame Street does, blatantly and unashamedly, is take full advantage of what children like best about TV. "Face it-kids love commercials," explains Joan Ganz Cooney, executive director of NET's Children's Television Workshop. "Their visual impact is way ahead of everything else seen on television; they are clever, and they tell a simple, self-contained story." Instead of cornflakes and Kleenex, Sesame Street sells the alphabet, numbers, ideas and concepts in commercial form. Each program contains a dozen or more 12- to 90-second spots, many repeated during the program to boost...