Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston, the Burger King fast-food chain, which employs 160,000 people nationwide, took the unusual step of advertising jobs on MTV, the cable rock-music channel, to attract young prospective workers into its management program. In the throes of a rapid expansion, Burger King felt a strong need to try new avenues that might help ease its worker shortage...
...James Stephens, and his classmates struggled with torts, contracts and civil procedures, as well as real world issues of abortion, anti-Semitism and civil rights. This year, Showtime producers decided that the students were at last ready to leave the nest and become lawyers, so in June the cable channel will show the first of five "graduation year" episodes. And in August, a final two-hour commencement program will end it all with a bang. But show producers wouldn't say what the future holds in store for the budding young lawyers. An associate position with Ropes and Gray...
...Catholic Church's unwillingness to allow open discussion of homosexuality was furthered recently when it launched a successful campaign to pressure the producers of WBZ-TV Channel 4's "People Are Talking" program to cancel a scheduled segment dealing with the topic of lesbian nuns. In addition, the Cardinal has promoted anti-gay bigotry by publicly supporting the recently enacted Massachusetts Department of Social Service's blatantly discriminatory foster care policy which excludes lesbians, gays, single people and women who work outside the home from qualifying for foster placements...
Antigovernment protests in an authoritarian country are rare, and those in South Korea are still distinctly circumscribed. The state-controlled national television channel devoted one sentence to the Easter demonstration; newspapers all but ignored it. On his way to Kwangju, the country's leading oppositionist, Kim Dae Jung, was stopped by more than 200 policemen and forced to return home. He was also told by police that he would not be allowed to travel to Taegu...
When you watch a video on TV, you can talk to your friends, pass the Doritos and even change the channel. With Wuthering Heights there is no such option. The viewer is trapped for the duration of each number--songs which lose their cleverness in the first 30 seconds. The next two and a half minutes just continues to play out a dead punchline...