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During Craft's eight-month tenure, KMBC'S news ratings rose from second place to first in the six-station market, which is the nation's 27th largest. Nonetheless, the station hired consultants to test her appeal further. Perhaps the most damaging evidence against Metromedia was an audio tape of a research discussion in which Steve Meacham, a Media Associates employee, said to a group of local viewers, "Let's spend 30 seconds destroying Christine Craft. Is she a mutt...
...page study, issued after an eight-month investigation, focuses on the April 28, 1982, auction of leases to 13 tracts in the prized Powder River Basin area. Interior officials say the sale, involving more than 21,000 acres" and 1.6 billion tons of coal, was the largest in the nation's history...
...Britain, becoming the first in a modern line of enforced exiles; after a heart attack; in Bern, Switzerland. Once a writer and editor in good official standing, Tarsis grew disillusioned with Communism in the 1950s. The publication abroad of his scathing 1962 novel The Bluebottle earned him an eight-month stay in a Soviet mental hospital, an experience he described in his autobiographical novel Ward 7: "All around him were faces exposed by sleep or distorted by nightmares ... it is always hard to be the only one awake, and it is almost unbearable to stand the third watch...
...drawings and detailed models, complete with wiring, batteries and lights. Says Anton Anderson, 12: "I know all about kilowatts now and B.T.U.s. That's British thermal units." During the past year, pupils in the Clark City classes boosted their reading-skill level by 14 months, compared with the eight-month increase recorded by other students. In turn, the Commonwealth Edison volunteers have learned firsthand about the concerns of their inner-city customers. Says Division Vice President Robert Manning: "It's turned out to be a kind of Dale Carnegie course for our people...
...University does not have to rehire a short-order cook, filed over one and one half hears ago, because he did not fulfill the requirements for reinstation according to an arbitrator's ruling last week which ended an eight-month union disupute...