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News shows are not exempt from these financial exigencies and are in fact a large source of revenue for local stations. Each station obviously wants to have the most people watching its show, and develops different lures including informative reporting, exciting film segments, and yes, attractive hosts. Attractive does not necessarily mean good looks, but also warmth, believability and delivery. None of these criteria are inherently offensive since a television news broadcaster's job is in large part visibility. Even the beauty standard is not at all repugnant. If a newscaster's appearance makes viewers uncomfortable enough to turn...
...looking to improve rating, there should be no reason why suggestions can't be made about appearance. If scientifically done polls indicate that someone's appearance or age is turning off sets, why shouldn't a private company be able to fire that person? Men should not be exempt from this standard and in fact are really not. Roger Mudd, some observers say, lost his NBC anchor job to Tom Brokaw because of age and local sports commentator Don Gillis, who is in his 50s, lost his job to a younger person for no other apparent reason...
...found this requirement unconstitutional and enjoined its enforcement, the Supreme Court has now stayed that injunction. Thus, under regulations promulgated by the Department of Education, all students seeking and must file a statements indicating either that they have registered or that they are female, born before 1960, or otherwise exempt from the registration requirements. Unless they file such a statement, they many not receive federal scholarship grants, federally guaranteed or subsidized loans, or federally subsidized work study funds. Beginning with the 1985-86 academic year, students also will have to provide the University with documentary verification of their statements before...
...default had been expected for weeks, so the municipal bond market reacted quietly, with most prices holding fairly steady. But concern about Whoops' woes had been depressing the market for months. Public utilities building power plants have had to promise exceptionally high tax-exempt interest rates of more than 9% to sell new bonds. Several utilities, like North Carolina Municipal Power Agency No. 1, postponed their offerings to avoid testing the market. Some industry insiders fear that the continuing Whoops mess could ultimately sour investors on the entire spectrum of municipal bonds. Says James Lebenthal, whose appearances in television...
Defaults on tax-exempt municipal bonds like those issued on Whoops have been relatively infrequent and have usually involved smallish sums. Only 685 defaults have occurred since 1940, out of 301,016 municipal bond issues. In terms of money lost, each of the three largest were around one-twentieth the size of last week's fizzle. The West Virginia Turnpike Commission defaulted on $133 million in bonds in 1958. Chicago's Calumet Skyway collapsed under bond indebtedness of $101 million in 1963, and investors were short-changed in 1978 when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission reneged...