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True enough, but American viewers are accustomed to being transported to the scene of the news. The effect of studio interviews is sometimes akin to a televised radio show. Moreover, there are pitfalls in live TV, especially as practiced by the unintrusive interviewers on NewsHour: under the permissive guidance of Washington Correspondent Judy Woodruff (who was lured from NBC), a discussion of President Reagan's proposed legislation to correct sex discrimination turned into an unrestrained attack by two feminist critics...
...Charles Stevenson, who operates his own New York-based money management firm. Venturesome traders across the U.S. are turning an esoteric-sounding new way of investing money into one of the hottest and fastest-growing ways to cash in on the bull market: stock index futures contracts. They are akin to commodities contracts, but on nothing so tangible as pork bellies or bushels of wheat. More than 1 million of the contracts changed hands in July, and their daily value at times reached $5 billion. Stock index futures, introduced in February 1982 and now traded on exchanges in Chicago, Kansas...
...those suffering from more severe anger, humiliation or depression, professional one-on-one counseling is provided. There is a telephone hotline for suicidal or otherwise deeply disturbed former employees. Says James Ross, a senior industrial-relations coordinator at Bethlehem: "Only something akin to death counseling can help these workers...
...beverages that the micros produce are more akin to imported German or English brews than to Budweiser Miller or other light, pale lager beers. The alcoholic content can range as high as 7% compared with less than 5% for most major domestic brands. "Our beer is richer, heavier, hoppier," says William Newman, 36, the founder of Wm. S. Newman Brewing (1982 sales: $103,000) in Albany. "There's simply a market out there for more distinctive beer." Some beer drinkers agree. Says Terry Czech, a roofer who lives in Schenectady, N.Y.: "I've gone several miles...
...1890s. "The air which surrounds the body under the bed clothing is exceedingly impure, being impregnated with the poisonous substances which have escaped through the pores of the skin." Similarly, parlor chairs were designed to keep the sexes separate and unequal. The gentlemen's chairs were "akin to thrones," according to this diverting account of everyday life in the Victorian era. While men sat back comfortably in their high-backed chairs equipped with arm rests, women were confined to smaller, armless models that encouraged the proper posture: upright, away from the chair back, hands modestly folded...