Word: priming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nations with parliamentary systems, resignation from high office on a matter of principle is common. If a Cabinet member disagrees with his Prime Minister on a basic issue of policy, he normally quits and tells why. Thus, Britain's former Foreign Secretary George Brown resigned his portfolio in 1968, complaining about what he thought was Prime Minister Harold Wilson's high-handed one-man rule. Some years earlier, Wilson himself left Clement Attlee's regime in protest against an emphasis on arms over social welfare. Anthony Eden suffered similar Cabinet defections as a result of his Suez...
...difference between European and American practice on political resignations is largely constitutional. In Britain, for example, a Cabinet member is appointed by the Prime Minister, but he is basically responsible to his own constituency and Parliament itself. If he quits or is sacked by the Prime Minister, he still has a seat on the back benches from which he can work against government policies. The American Cabinet member, by contrast, owes his allegiance and loyalty primarily to the President; he has no political platform from which to oppose policies he disapproves. Moreover, unlike his European counterpart, he has no chance...
...Gurion's Polish-born wife Paula, who died in 1968, once said: "Anyone can be a Prime Minister, but not everyone can be a Ben-Gurion." Her husband, whose last name literally means "son of a lion cub," was Israel's principal founder in 1948; he chose the name of the new country, served as its Premier for its first 15 years and, as "B-G," became a stern, uncompromising but well-loved father figure. Since 1965, however, he has become less and less active in politics...
...Newlywed Game and The Dating Game are popular enough TV pastimes. But the most expensive, bitter and hilarious game of all is the one that the public never gets to see: the Rating Game. The rules are vague, the scoring is arbitrary, and the pawns are prime-time programs. Top network executives claim to have outgrown the game and have tried to call it off, but two of the all-time great competitors-CBS Senior Programming Vice President Michael Dann and NBC Audience Measurement Vice President Paul Klein-somehow did not give up the fight. The fascination lies...
...numbers supposedly signify the percentage of TV-owning households tuned to each network during prime evening time. Each percentage point represents 1,175,850 viewers...