Word: vs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford Motor Co. too is feeling the pinch, with sales of its big Thunderbirds down 41% for the year so far, and purchases of Mark Vs off 24%. But the plunge-of-the-year award so far goes to the Cougar, which had sold 18,775 by mid-June in 1978. For the same period this year, fewer than 3,000 Cougars have been bought-only 35 of them during the middle ten days of June. At Chrysler, sales of Dodge Aspens are down 30% for the year. The company's hottest autos are the subcompact Dodge Omni...
...displeasure. Under Kosner's predecessor, Osborn Elliott, now dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Newsweek was briefly known on Madison Avenue as a "hot book" because of improved editorial vitality and attendant advertising and circulation gains. (Newsweek's current U.S. circulation is 2.9 million, vs. TIME's 4.25 million.) Yet newsstand sales have slumped lately, and Graham is said to have been concerned that Kosner was making Newsweek too frivolous with his fondness for cover stories on pop culture and entertainment subjects. The week after Pope John Paul II made his historic return...
...deep implications for both employers and workers, as well as for U.S. society at large: Is it fair to discriminate against whites in order to help the longtime victims of discrimination, notably blacks and other disadvantaged minorities? Last week, ruling in the crucial case of United Steelworkers of America vs. Weber, the U.S. Supreme Court gave an answer. Employers can indeed choose to give special job preference to blacks without fear of being harassed by reverse-discrimination suits brought by other employees. The ruling was a strong endorsement of affirmative-action programs, one that will both protect them from legal...
...characters in Prophecy talk. A lot. Long time. Enough exposition for five giant monster movies. Everybody has a point of view; so did I--I munched my popcorn and thought about the blonde three rows down. When it comes to mixing horror and blatant social criticism, I prefer Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster...
...gore in Dawn of the Dead actually points up a primary virtue of horror films. Everytime somebody blasts off the side of a zombie's head, audiences cheer. Why shouldn't they? What else can you do to flesh-eating zombies? Monster movies reduce every conflict to black vs. white, good vs. evil--that's the point. But they're fantasies--they invoke the supernatural; they don't pretend that that's how it is in real life, the way John Wayne or Clint Eastwood movies do. You can't rehabilitate the alien or the zombies in Dawn...