Word: answering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sends a reporter to the home of a victim until she is sure the family is aware of the death, and always instructs her reporters to honor a relative's refusal to talk. "It is one of the few situations in journalism where you should take no for an answer," she says. (However, she does advise the reporter to leave a business card in case the person has a change of heart...
When Beverly Dynes, now seven months pregnant, had been in Mandela House for only one month, she confided, "I keep asking myself, 'If I was back out on the streets and offered some rocks, what would I say?' Before, my answer would be 'yes!' But now it's 'probably.' God, that's a big step." Another woman responded, "Amen." But Thomas' steady message, then as now, is "You say you're better, but just how much better are you?" She tells the groups, "You've got to remind yourself every day why you're here because the closer you come...
...that cash, Bush proposes to reform the system that supervises the thrift industry and insures its deposits. The main regulatory agency, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which has been accused of being too chummy with thrift-industry leaders, will be replaced by one chairman who will answer to the Treasury Secretary. The exhausted Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp., which guarantees deposits, will be overseen by its healthier and better-staffed counterpart for the banking industry, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Banks and thrifts have traditionally had separate regulators and roles: S & Ls specialized in taking long-term savings...
Christopher Whittle has a high-tech answer for the problem of cultural illiteracy among American students. Beginning next month, his Knoxville-based Whittle Communications firm will beam Channel One, a slick news program for teenagers, directly into schools for a seven-week test period. Whittle has provided each of the six pilot schools with $50,000 worth of television sets and satellite equipment to use as they wish. The only requirement: each day students will have to watch a twelve-minute Channel One broadcast -- including two minutes...
...features, along with a focus piece examining one story in depth. The young announcers, who include Kenny Rogers Jr., son of the country-and-western singer, will even spring pop quizzes on their viewers. Example: Which of these two is older, the pyramids or the Great Wall of China? (Answer: the pyramids...