Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combat this danger, hundreds of thousands of urban office workers are being sent out to work in the countryside. In eastern Shansi province, which has had less than one-fourth of an inch of rain since October (compared with an average annual rainfall of 15 inches), Taiyuan Radio broadcast instructions that "manpower, material and finance be first concentrated on conservation projects that can give benefits this spring." Workers hope to sink 30,000 new wells and install nearly 50,000 pumps in other wells before June...
...program was being canceled on the grounds that it "might be unnecessarily abrasive to the feelings of millions of Americans whose lives or attention are at the moment emotionally dominated by the returning P.O.W.s and other veterans who have suffered the ravages of war." The play might be broadcast at a later date, he added, "when its possible application to actual events [will be] less immediate...
...tape of Bowen's lecture will be broadcast on WGBH-FM from 9 to 10:30 p.m. tonight...
Kept in solitary confinement for six of his seven years' imprisonment, and often locked in leg irons, Ramsey was subjected to frequent indoctrination. He supplied some antiwar statements but they were too ambivalent to be printed or broadcast for propaganda purposes. The opposition that he expressed to the war, he believes, was within "my Constitutional prerogatives as an individual. When I got out, I discovered that the Administration had made many of the changes I was concerned about: the movement from the atmosphere of the Crusades to that of the Congress of Vienna, from religious fanaticism to Metternich...
Throughout the long controversy, the city tried to maintain an appearance of business as usual. Some 260 of the 285 schools officially remained open part-time, local television stations broadcast supplementary lessons, and eight special "learning centers" were opened for college-bound seniors. Even this part-time education reached only about half the students. One senior, Marilyn Etkins, 17, got 1,500 student signatures on a petition protesting the poor quality of the substitute education, but nobody at city hall would accept...