Word: establishments
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Nonetheless, PUSH started picketing WBBM's offices twice a week and urged black viewers to tune out. In December the organization presented a proposed agreement to the station. The document called upon WBBM to hire two male black or Hispanic anchors and establish a 40% employment quota for minorities. It said the station should conduct 35% of its banking with black-owned institutions and assign 25% of its legal business to minority lawyers. WBBM also was asked to donate $10 million to the United Negro College Fund and $1 million to "black organizations designated by PUSH...
...done overseas mission work. "We are encouraged to go out and experience the church in a different way," says Father Madden, who is preparing to go to Haiti this fall. Father Dalby, who joined the order in 1940, spent six years in South Africa in the 1960s helping to establish the Anglican Church there. "Our primary purpose was to keep the thing going," he says, adding that once the Episcopal Church was firmly established, the order left. The Society also had a branch in Japan, which Father David E. Allen worked in from 1962-1975. Japanese monks came to America...
...Harvard Divinity School will establish an endowed chair by next December honoring its former dean and the current Bishop of Stockholm, Krister Stendahl, officials said yesterday...
...laid-off women, meanwhile, are in urgent need of the English instruction and vocational skill training programs that the state had promised to establish several months ago. Without these services, most of the women are incapable of seeking reemployment on their own. Language barriers turn many away from employment offices where they are often told their records can not be found...
...explain and clarify events. That was the tradition at CBS, exemplified in the old days by Eric Sevareid, who with handsome furrowed face gravely discoursed on matters grave. Sevareid gave Moyers two pieces of advice: "Appear regularly, and choose your own subjects." Regularity, Moyers agrees, is necessary to establish an acceptable batting average and to accustom people to your approach: "I'm not ideological. I change my mind a lot, issue to issue. Commentary is a state of mind." It is not, Moyers believes, his views that keep him off the news: "There's never been a constraint editorially...