Word: chucking
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...minimum" this fall. George Vradenburg 3d, executive vice president of Fox Inc., vows "increased attention not only to the depiction of violence but also to whether there are appropriate ways to resolve conflicts without using violence." One CBS show has already been affected: Walker, Texas Ranger, a western starring Chuck Norris that premiered in the spring, will be less violent when it returns to the fall schedule, network programmers...
...laurels for most likeable Republican should go to Sen. Charles "Chuck" Grassley of Iowa. Another veteran of the Congress, Grassley's conscientious inquiries are often based on what he reads, not what he hears at any one moment...
Downriver the story was the same. Mayor Chuck Scholz of Quincy, Illinois, was startled and touched to find two girls who looked to be a mere eight to 10 years old clutching shovels and waiting to board a bus carrying volunteers to work at a nearby sandbagging site. At Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, south of St. Louis, volunteer inmates from the Farmington Correctional Center heaved sandbags side by side with people from the neighborhood. "Man, these guys can throw sandbags like you wouldn't believe!" marveled Gerald Basler, a highway- maintenance worker. "Some of these guys can catch them in midair...
...fact, MIT had three accounts it has yet to settle with the University. The vocational school down Mass. Ave. also owes money to both the Harvard Club of Boston and the Harvard College Library. Officials at the club and the library did not return repeated telephone calls yesterday. Chuck Shaw, an auditor at MIT, says he was unaware of any money not paid to Harvard. He says the Institute's policy is to send out letters letting companies and other colleges know that MIT has money that was due them. "We do send letters...
...people, almost always a man and a woman. One reason is that co-anchorship makes a show seem fast-paced. Then there is the quasi-feminist, yin-and-yang rationale: viewers evidently prefer a male-female balance at the anchor desk. (Indeed, after a decade of watching Chuck-and-Sues and Bree-and-Michaels on local news, the public was prepared to accept Hillary-and-Bill -- and to obsess on their haircuts.) "This makes more sense than the teams that have been tried," says Friedman, who produced NBC Nightly News until February. "Dan's aloof. Connie's cuddly...