Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign, set to begin in mid-May will seek to counter recent criticism that the Center is no longer the premier institution in its field, having gradually fallen behind Soviet studies programs at other major universities because of a lack of funds, officials said...
...McDonald's on Cermak Road, the main commercial street, there were 100 patrons one day last week but not a black in the place. "Oh, we get a few colored in here," said a grandmotherly woman behind the counter. "In fact, I think I sold a Big Mac to one a couple of weeks ago." In Boulevard Manor, the most expensive part of town, a black face is not merely remarkable, but alarming. )own here," says a Manor resident, anyone who sees a colored person walking along the street without a delivery uniform on calls the police...
...that last week they petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to restore to them the syndication rights that the FCC had awarded to the series' producers in 1970. The networks argue that without the revenue from syndication it will be more difficult to commission adventurous, expensive programming. The producers counter that the licensing fee the networks pay for two airings of a series often does not cover production costs (more than $750,000 for an hour show, $400,000 for a half-hour). The profits from syndication do, though: $800 million a year. Both sides are arming themselves...
Network executives counter with results of a Nielsen cable survey of homes plugged in to 20 or more channels. Only eight of those channels are watched more than an hour a week. As Gene Jankowski, president of the CBS Broadcast Group, notes: "Nobody buys technology for its own sake. You buy the new video technology because it provides a message you can't receive through other means. But it's not the only message, or even the most important one. The networks are. They are the only national instantaneous distribution system, and are likely to remain...
Whatever we understand as the truth is predicated on surprise and uncertainty, on premises altered, grounds shifted, on opinions made vulnerable to circumstance. When caught in a reversal of a former idea, John F. Kennedy used to counter, "I don't think that way any more." Every morning we peer at a reflection and behold the same face and the different face, the familiar and startling...