Word: makers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues. He had a prodigious memory that enabled him to bank every concession he believed we had made-or even hinted at. It would then become the starting point for the next round. Before he was elevated to the Politburo in 1973, he was an implementer, not a maker of policy. Afterward, he became visibly more influential and self-confident...
...bear the thought that the new was turning into a confirmation of what he had sought to destroy, Mao launched himself into ever more frenzied campaigns to save his people from themselves. Many revolutions have been made to seize power and to destroy existing structures. Never has their maker undertaken a task so tremendous and possessed as to continue the revolution by deliberate systematic upheavals directed against the very system he had created. No institution was immune...
Hoffman-La Roche, maker of Valium and Librium, contends that the incidence of addiction is low. The problem, says the company, comes from a small group of patients who either intentionally overdose themselves, stay on the medication too long or combine it with alcohol. Nevertheless, the company plans an educational campaign to alert patients to the risks of misusing Valium...
...nation's number three auto maker announced last week that its losses would surpass even the figure of $600 to $700 million it had announced earlier, putting Chrysler in striking distance of a new record for the largest loss in corporate history. Plagued with incompetent managers for the past decade, Chrysler is now close to defaulting on its loans, no small problem--the tenth largest corporate mogul in America is over half a billion dollars in debt. And its repeated boostings of its loss estimates have not reassured the lending institutions, which seem to have written Chrysler...
...logistics of making an epic are awesome. Cimino, like Napoleon, is not the kind of strategist to skip a legion. The film involves more than 1,200 extras; from cravats to camisoles, their costumes had to be authentic. He went to Philadelphia to find a top-hat maker, and even farther afield to track down contemporary firearms and long-retired craftsmen who could make scores of wagons. From Denver, Cimino ordered a 19th century locomotive that had to be rerouted because it was too big for many tunnels. Then came the roundup of 80 wagon teams. Using fewer horses, says...