Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stars and producer of CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard, a misbegotten rip-off of Smokey and the Bandit. The questions are relaxed, the answers as washed as California light. Finally, Ginny Weissman, editor of the Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual content? The camera seemed to focus a lot on men's behinds...
...short run, low productivity can create jobs as more workers are needed to supply rising demand. That happened in early 1978, when joblessness dropped much faster than production rose. But in the long run, low productivity hurts employment too. In the 1960s, it was thought that the economy could grow 4% each year without setting off a burst of demand-pull inflation. Mostly because of the collapse in productivity, the Administration now reckons the safe-growth ceiling to be 3%. An economy growing that slowly cannot create enough jobs for all the people who are looking for work...
Sears, the leader in an industry that employs more than 15% of the labor force, has long been at odds with the EEOC. Indeed, some thought the suit was designed to steal thunder from an anti-Sears suit still pending at EEOC. Sears officials deny this, but they make no secret of their frustrations with Washington. In 1973 the EEOC charged that Sears, which has about 417,000 people on its payroll, had followed discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. The company added a new dimension to its affirmative action program: Sears units were to hire one minority group member...
...comic messiah who floats above earth on his surfboard uttering windy profundities. ABC, meantime, is casting a covetous eye on a (no doubt) shapely Spider-Woman. Lee has optioned a dozen heroes to Universal, and is now thinking about setting up his own production company. "I've always thought of myself as being in show business," he says. "It's just taken the world a long time to realize...
There is not much meat to this delicate, whimsical little novel about the friendship of two English brothers, but the bones clack together nicely. Peregrine is a precocious child. His younger brother Benedick is thought to be dull, because for several years he speaks in a private language only Peregrine can understand. Their father, a literary scholar and full-rigged eccentric, is never ruffled by his odd progeny; but their mother, a dithered creature who soon fades out of the scene, is confounded. At the age of six, for example, Benedick inquires, "What's a prostitute?" Peregrine knows...