Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raiders handcuffed seven party staffers and smashed furniture. After planting five homemade bombs, three of which later exploded, they opened fire on three policemen making a check of the area. One of the officers was killed instantly and the other two were wounded. The terrorists then made a clean getaway...
Much of the current gallows humor at NBC eddies around the relationship of Silverman and Pfeiffer, a.k.a. "the Odd Couple" and "Mr. Tough and Mrs. Clean." By most standards, the two top executives are indeed mismatched. Silverman is rumpled and raffish, a volatile high roller, known for his seat-of-the-pants decisions on programming. Pfeiffer is formal and controlled, a superb administrator, known for her idealism and belief in "high programming standards." Where Silverman's language is direct and often unprintable, Pfeiffer's fluctuates between girls' school ("Oh gosh, gee whiz") and "high...
...Pfeiffer's problems could be her idealism. According to a friend, "She always believed in making a better world. Corruption is totally alien to Jane, and she wants to clean it up right away. She's a nun." Says another source: "I have the feeling that she thinks television is a dirty business, period, and she has to save us from ourselves by cleaning house." Another opinion is that her IBM training will be of limited use at NBC. Says a former executive at a TV production company: "Jane Pfeiffer is a virgin who comes...
...also has some notable experience with civil action. In 1977 he formed something called the Rock Brigade, 63 high school kids, all volunteers, who are still providing and servicing 440 garbage cans in the ghettos of the South Bronx to set an example of how to keep a neighborhood clean. Considering crime on the subways, Sliwa came to a conclusion. "Volunteer patrols," he recalls, "seemed the only way to show those bums the public's had enough...
...this case both with the ends and the values which we are pursuing, which have to do, as I'll come to in a moment, and with the means by which those ends are to be pursued. We do not get up here and say that we wish to clean our hands of the case, because we recognize that the means reflect on the moral stance which we take. We also seek morality, or an option which will express the morality, related both with the moral standing of the University as an educational institution, and with the effects which...