Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...programming, such as the Billy Graham Crusades and Oral Roberts, to be patently offensive. In spite of this, I do not demand that religious programs be banned from TV. I am not arrogant enough to proclaim that I know what all Americans should and should not be allowed to watch. Why then should religious groups be allowed to dictate my viewing choices...
...jobs available. No longer. Now longshoremen "badge in" at 7:30 a.m. at local hiring halls by inserting a plastic card into an IBM computer and lounge around for a while. By 9 a.m. the unlucky ones have gone to work; the others can go home to watch TV or moonlight on a second job-and still collect full base pay ($64 per day). That undemanding life is largely the result of a combination of two forces: the rise of container ships, which has greatly reduced the need for dock labor, and the success of the International Longshoremen...
...years later, he introduced the elegant, expensive and popular line of "Executive" calculators in Europe and the U.S. But in 1975 such electronic giants as Texas Instruments and Japan's Casio captured most of the market and drove down calculator prices. Meanwhile Sinclair had introduced the Black Watch, a digital wristwatch aimed at the British youth market. Demand was high, but the firm that supplied the integrated circuits could not produce them in sufficient numbers. Watch and calculator losses transformed a profit of $530,000 on sales of $13.3 million in fiscal 1975 to a deficit...
...flaws scar his rendition of the silent film idol; he delivers a convincing Italian accent, and the spectacle of star-struck women clustering about this Valentino is plausible. The script wisely makes use of Nureyev's awesome talents on a dance floor at several stages, and the opportunity to watch him glide through tangos briefly takes one's mind off the film's many lesser moments. Russell did choose good raw material for the title character, but the script he co-authored with Mardik Martin provides little help for a novice actor in definite need of some solid support...
Despite having to sit with Mike Savit's brother for the entire game, it was a pleasant change to watch two squads play four quarters of football without a motion penalty being called...