Word: timer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then it happened. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a particularly drunk old-timer, the type who spends his days going to the wakes of his "life-long friends" and his nights telling strangers what dirty so-and-sos they were for not leaving him anything in their wills. Definitely someone to avoid, but as avoiding a drunk at an Irish bar is about as easy as outswimming a tiger shark, I knew I was a goner...
...discount). The Betamax, which can be attached to any TV, records on a $16 cartridge one hour's worth of color (or black and white) programming-either off a channel being watched or another channel. So watch what you please, go out when you like-setting the handy timer-and replay at your leisure the shows you loved or you missed. Terrific...
BENTON'S OTHER WAY of accentuating this juxtaposition of eras is through the unlikely combo itself: the old timer and the space cadet. This device is trickier, though; Altman and a lot of American film directors have tried the modern gangster idea and seen it work, while at first glance the oddball team device looks to be striclty situation comedy. Something That Girl would have larked into, or just the thing for The Sandy Duncan Show (a sitcom that keeled over in its break from the starting gate). And indeed, stereotyped situation comedy stuff...
...unfairly benefit employers who are going to increase their payrolls anyway, tax break or no, and would encourage the wrong kind of hiring-since a company could cut its taxes just as much by employing a part-time worker at $4,200 as it could by adding a full-timer at $8,400. Walter Heller, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, adds that the Ullman proposal would give disproportionate tax relief to companies in rapidly expanding areas like the Sunbelt but deny help to needy businesses in areas like New England. Carter's version of an employment...
...local softball field.) And even now, many townspeople are perversely proud of the fact that the hurricane wrought more damage in our town than any other on Fire Island. Yet Allen's book is far from a best-seller there--for as one hard-bitten, hard-drinking old-timer told me recently, "He just doesn't say enough about...