Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be less scarce next week, when NBC launches its new half-hour daytime serial, Generations. Viewers will discover that the Marshalls are not equal-opportunity walk-ons but as much a "real" family as their friends the Whitmores and as capable as any white family of bumbling into a melodramatic morass...
Generations' game is considerably more radical. A program integrating the two races as equal partners might just attract more viewers among blacks, who constitute a significant 20% of the daytime audience. "Nobody," says NBC entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff, "had tried to create a show for a large black population that exists in daytime audiences. I thought we should do it." Serials, moreover, can be long-lived (Guiding Light is in its 37th year), and NBC thinks it has designed a breakthrough, "a new automobile for the late 20th century," says Tartikoff...
...deal with international banks that would require the country to pay more on its debt than it would receive in new money. "It's not that Peru is refusing to pay," says Garcia. "But we are going to negotiate in such a way that the flow is positive or equal...
...think he should be. This is my opinion. I think elections should be universal, equal, by direct and secret vote between alternative candidates, from the bottom to the top, including the election of the Chairman of the Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet...
...Americans stand to gain from the achievement of a well-integrated polity. Such a goal is important for a country which purports to grant equal protection to all races, religions and creeds...