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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several news organizations have responded to public criticism by adopting - new codes of behavior. WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, for example, forbids its reporters to ask victims' relatives how they feel. When the family of a hit- and-run victim asked television reporters to stay away from the funeral last month, WCCO agreed, even though its competitors did not. Rosemary McManus, assistant editor at Long Island's Newsday in New York, says she never 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...
...Norman Whan, a former insurance telemarketing consultant, who runs a nonprofit Los Angeles-based organization called Church Growth Development International. Whan, 46, a Quaker, specializes in starting up brand-new churches, using a target of 200 members as the number needed for a self-sustaining congregation. "When you ask 20,000 people," explains Whan, "you can get at least 200 to do anything." In addition to canvassing, Whan has conducted "The Phone's for You!" seminars for 2,000 Protestant congregations from Canada to Florida (cost per attendee: $295). Another of the telemarketers, Church Growth Inc. of Monrovia, Calif., helps...
...background you hear cries of derision. You ask yourself, "What type of job is this...
While no one compares de Man's explicit Nazi involvement with Parsons' efforts to recruit Soviet experts during the early Cold War, scholars continue to ask what effect the Parsons allegations will have on the still-simmering debate over his theories...
...must ask where the replacements will be coming from. Here at Harvard and other research universities, a very large part of the faculty comes from smaller research colleges [which are suffering themselves from a smaller pool of faculty]," says Riesman...