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Other researchers dispute Hirsch's study. George Gerbner, dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading theorist on TV's influence, calls it "interesting but flawed." Gerbner and his associates say that Hirsch misused statistics on TV watching from the National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Video Venom | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Although Gilmore's ruling applies to the entire 1980 census, the plaintiff before him was just Detroit. The Census Bureau's preliminary figures indicated that the city's population had decreased by nearly 24% in ten years, to 1.2 million. But Mayor Coleman Young's staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Count Again | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Turning to another aspect of a worker's compensation--her pension--Snyder says the fact that 75 per cent of the women workers in the United States retire without a pension must be rectified. She notes that as women turn 40, they are phased out or fired, leaving them without...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: Continuing the Good Fight | 10/1/1980 | See Source »

The Los Angeles police say Pryor told them that the accident occurred while he was "free-basing" cocaine. This newly fashionable practice involves purifying the coke by mixing it with highly flammable ether, which, when it evaporates, leaves coke crystals that burn with a steady flame and are smoked through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Can't Stop! | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

Barnet believes Americans have less control over the direction of their country than they realize, and he does not think that they base or are capable of basing their decisions about natural resources on an accurate understanding of world systems.

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Leaning In | 5/16/1980 | See Source »

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