Word: cited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottom line, is the ( sinking status of the CBS Evening News, which has been overtaken in popularity for the past two months by ABC's World News Tonight. Some network executives blame the decline on weak lead-in programming on local CBS stations around the country. Others cite ABC's widely praised coverage of the San Francisco earthquake, a bonus of its presence at the World Series...
...Wednesday, December 6 front page story on science enrollment falling, you cite the fact that Harvard has been boosting acceptance of high school students interested in science to about 40-50 percent of the class in the past few years. Nevertheless, there are 1253 upperclassmen concentrating in sciences, 25 percent of the upperclass population. Obviously, a very large portion of these students changed their mind, and the only difference between the students who have chosen their concentrations and those entering the University, the difference that may make the decision, is a year's experience in Harvard courses...
...items were priced higher in Japan's capital than in the Big Apple. The more dramatic examples included European spark plugs ($7.60 in Tokyo, $1.70 in New York), U.S.-made electric shavers ($90.15 vs. $44.95) and Australian bed linen ($63.40 vs. $20). The Bush Administration is likely to cite the survey as evidence that Japanese trade barriers hinder competition that would lead to lower prices in that country...
Some lawyers cite Aetna as a model company. It permits its attorneys to spend up to 10 percent of their paid company time on volunteer work. It also encourages its summer law interns to participate in at least one volunteer case...
...come together and honor those who had served -- those who had died and those who had come home to anything but a hero's welcome. Lin was proud of her achievement, yet disillusioned by the negative reactions her design had initially elicited ("a black gash of shame," to cite one), by the battles she had to wage to keep the "additions" of a flag and statue far away from the memorial, and by the fact that even her Chinese heritage was maligned. Young (she was a 21-year-old senior at Yale when her design was chosen...