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...painful message which says the cure for our sick public broadcasting system is more money--lots of money. In fact, the commission recommends an annual budget (by 1985) of $1.2 billion. Of this total pool, the federal government would provide $590 million, a recommended increase of over 300 per cent from 1978 funding levels. To supplement this, the commission proposes a system in which Congress would provide two dollars for every three dollars a local station gathered...
...overly complicated structure, lack of authority to make decisions, and bureaucratic rivalry that stifled creativity." Yet by partially centralizing programming decisions--in effect limiting the pool of programs that local stations have access to--the commission seems to step backward. In the past, local stations--which produced 60 per cent of programs broadcast in 1976--were responsible for the system's best programming. "Public broadcasting," argues The Wall Street Journal, "has evolved along lines that suggest the greatest impetus for creativity comes from the local stations, where program directors are faced with the daily challenge of finding something...
Ninety per cent of the money raised actually buys supplies for the Verdeans, and the other ten per cent pays for administrative and transportation costs, Montiero said...
...pension payments a month, in addition to their social security payments. The pension and general benefits review issue prompted the protracted labor negotiations between the University and its dining hall workers. The new plan will provide dining hall employees, custodians and property maintenance workers with 95 to 100 per cent of their pre-retirement take home...
Wilson said student managers receive between one and ten per cent of the sales revenues of students who they recruit...