Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course the cultural radicals and technoanarchists who make up the alternate television movement operate in a context far different from the sort of things they envision. Indeed, operating in a vacuum-that is, off the air-they are reversing the hardware-first, software-second pattern that has characterized the development of the television networks. Since the programming by groups like Raindance, People's Video Theatre and Videofreex, three New York City groups who make up a loosely formed alliance, does not appear on the public screens, they can operate with much greater freedom and they have literally to take their...
...changes so far have taken place in a vacuum," one junior Faculty member said last month. "None of them have touched Massachusetts Hall. Until we get a new President, we just don't have any way of measuring the intentions of the Corporation-even if they seem good-or the impact of what's happened...
...take a step that in effect runs counter to the Nixon Doctrine's strategy of lowering the U.S. military presence in Asia. But its decision to build the facility was guided by the fact that for the past two years, the Russians have been moving into the power vacuum created by Britain's decision to abandon its military position East of Suez. Since 1968, the Soviets have had as many as 30 ships in the ocean at a time and rarely fewer than...
...series of "price adjustments" designed to bring wages -which have been rising at 2% during 1970-and available goods into some kind of equilibrium. The cost of medicines and most industrial goods declined. The price tags on television sets went down 13%, on washing machines 17%, and on vacuum cleaners 15%. At the same time, however, food prices were drastically increased. Beef went up 19%, assuming that one could find it, flour 16% and salted herring 19%. The cost of ersatz coffee nearly doubled. The government also announced that wages would be frozen...
There is some perverted justice in the spiritual vacuum in which our troops live: American soldiers since 1968, as indicated in this book, have been contributing to bounties on the heads of commanding officers who continue to make vigorous attempts to seek out enemy forces...