Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mike Bender took top honors for the Crimson men, finishing 22nd in 31:35. John Perkins, Paul O' Learn and David Reese finished 27th, 28th and 29th for Harvard...
CHRISTINE CRAFT WAS a popular news anchor in 1981, for Kansas City television station KMBC-TV. In eight months, Craft had helped propel KMBC's news ratings from second to first in the nation's 27th largest market. There was a problem: the station did not think she was pretty nor deferential enough to men. Craft found herself out of a job, and Metromedia, Inc., which then owned KMBC, later found itself in court...
During Craft's eight-month tenure, KMBC'S news ratings rose from second place to first in the six-station market, which is the nation's 27th largest. Nonetheless, the station hired consultants to test her appeal further. Perhaps the most damaging evidence against Metromedia was an audio tape of a research discussion in which Steve Meacham, a Media Associates employee, said to a group of local viewers, "Let's spend 30 seconds destroying Christine Craft. Is she a mutt...
...Ford visited the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta. Since then the U.S. has openly backed the Indonesian position. Every year, the U.S. has voted against U.N. General Assembly resolutions condemning Indonesia. (The reolutions were passed anyway.) Since mid-1976, the U.S. State Department has recognized East Timor as the 27th province of Indonesia contrary to international law and to the U.N. resolutions asserting the island's right to self-determination. Furthermore, at the time of the attack, the U.S. not only continued but actually increased substantially its military aid to Indonesia. Even during an official six months suspension of military...
...these reports indicate that guerrilla activity was much higher in 1982 than in 1981 or 1980. In other words, the people of East Timor--who are ethnically different from the Indonesians and do not share the same history--have by no means accepted their fate of being the 27th province of Indonesia...