Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe Director Francis Coppola should not have bragged to everyone that he was making the definitive film of the Viet Nam War with Apocalypse Now [Aug. 27]. Maybe he was his own worst p.r. man. But what he did do was create one helluva tremendous cinema experience that stunned me and many others into silence. The film, like the war, is overpowering, brutal, unrelenting, spectacular. Who cares if Coppola had second thoughts about the ending? Did the war itself end as we Americans planned...
...speak they did. In rhetorical excesses that sometimes found Castro dozing off, speakers echoed his attacks on obvious targets of abuse. The U.S. was frequently denounced, as were the Muzorewa government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia and the white rulers of South Africa. Perhaps the worst punishment was reserved for Egypt, which Castro had excoriated in his keynote speech for "betraying the Arab cause" by signing the Camp David accord. When Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali vainly sought to defend his government, he was met by a flood of invective from the other Arab delegations. Even Jordan...
...arrived at its findings, which it admits are only "best estimates," by closely analyzing and comparing a sampling of returns and then making broad projections. The worst offenders, the IRS says, are self-employed workers, ranging from lawyers to street peddlers, who failed to report an estimated 40% of their income, or $39.5 billion. Employees of independent contractors - electricians, carpenters and the like - seem to be the most artful dodgers. Charged IRS Chief Jerome Kurtz: "At least 47% reported absolutely none of their compensation...
...White, a benevolent-looking, white-haired man who will turn 50 the day of the preliminary election, has commanded the troops in City Hall for the past 12 years. Is White a glutton for punishment? The mayor, his aides whisper in your ear, has led the city through the worst of times (i.e. the civil war to desegrate the city's schools) and now wants to guide his city into the 1980's. White is seeking an unprecedented fourth term in office and, if enough people stay awake to listen to his pitch again, he just...
...Chrysler's pitch was based on a "worst-case analysis"--a tactic the Pentagon has honed to the finest degree. Few financial observers predicted that Chrysler would actually have to liquidate all its operations simultaneously. Assuming that it did continue to decline, Chrysler would more likely continue to lose its share of the market to GM, albeit at a faster rate than it has for the past decade...