Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boozy haze, most of the conversation seems as timeless and fraudulent as ever. "You got a date?" "No babe yet. But it's early." "Well, lacrosse tryouts are coming up next week. Coach doesn't like us going in for stuff like that. It cuts your wind...
...material in chemicals, synthetic fibers and many other products. Rising fuel charges also will prod workers to demand more pay, which businessmen will pass on in higher prices. And as more dollars flow abroad, the greenback's value will tend to slump against other currencies, and Americans will wind up paying more for imports. The impact on the U.S. trade deficit, which last year reached a record $28.5 billion, will also be severe. In January alone, the deficit hit an eleven-month high of $3.1 billion, largely because oilmen rushed to stock up and beat future price increases...
...their desperation to knock out one another during the February sweeps-those weeks when Nielsen and Arbitron take an elaborate TV census-the networks spent a reported $13 million on that Sunday night to throw their heaviest punches at one another. CBS led off with Gone With the Wind; NBC followed with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; ABC, hoping to profit from the Presley boom, countered with its own special, Elvis! For millions of TV viewers, who had spent most of the season slogging through Sitcom Sahara, suddenly the tube runneth over...
Sitting in his Fifth Avenue apartment, even William Paley, 77, the venerable head of CBS, felt the frustration. "I wanted to see Cuckoo's Nest," he confesses, "but I was also curious to see how Gone With the Wind looked today. A lot of people who wanted to see it again were robbed of Cuckoo's Nest, and vice versa. The public is getting an uneven break during these sweeps weeks. Everybody is sick and tired of them...
...always predictable; some of the blockbusters failed to go off. On the other hand, the figures were rarely very surprising. On that famous night of Feb. 11, all the networks did well. ABC's Elvis! was on top with 39% of the audience, CBS and Gone With the Wind had 36%, and NBC with Cuckoo's Nest had 32%. (If that adds up to more than 100%, and it does, it means that some of the families polled had more than...