Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's charm lies in the fact that Paul's bomb begins ticking suspensefully not for any vast didactic reasons, but because everyone associated with it behaves in recognizably human fashion. Paul, for example, started to tinker with fissionable material down in the basement because a physicist named John Mathewson (played by John Lithgow in his best slow-burn style) is intent on tinkering with Paul's newly separated mom (Jill Eikenberry). This does not send the boy into an Oedipal frenzy, but it makes him wary when John invites him to his lab to play with a laser...
...slightly lower when his reruns are factored out) and claimed that she had to fight to get offbeat guests like Boy George on the show. "I always felt I was a stepchild at NBC," she said. "In all the time I was there, I never met (Chairman) Grant Tinker." Carson, through a spokesman, said he was miffed that Rivers had negotiated a deal behind his back. NBC, meanwhile, pointed out that Rivers is joining a lengthy list of late-night hosts, including Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett and Alan Thicke, who have failed in the battle against Tonight. Said...
...ways to hedge themselves against sudden swings in exchange rates and other pitfalls of the international economy. In the same vein, he advises countries that they must give top priority to their international competitive position, rather than to domestic economic considerations. Moreover, he says, governments should avoid trying to tinker with the workings of free markets like the currency exchanges. Drucker's musings may be well founded. But they are also, unfortunately, the kind of economic advice that is all too often easier to give than to receive...
Another area of concern is that GE might interfere with NBC News. On that score Welch offered reassurance. Said he: "The traditional independence of NBC's news operations will be maintained." Nor is GE likely to second-guess Tinker's judgment about what TV shows Americans will be watching. Tinker welcomed the merger, suggesting that GE's financial resources would help NBC in the battle of the networks. "We had a supportive parent in RCA," he said, "and now we'll gain an even stronger parent." Of course, NBC is merely returning to the parent that helped nurture it more...
These small, low-risk economic bodies, which have sprouted throughout China, are an important component of Deng Xiaoping's second revolution. They serve as manageable guinea pigs, where the authorities can tinker with flexible production lines or even try out such foreign devices as stockholding and mergers. "We have a saying," explains Shen Yuanlong, director of the Peking- based State Administration for Industry and Commerce, " 'A small boat can turn back more easily...