Word: explained
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...PUBLIC TELEVISION stations, however, are harder pressed to explain why Ivy football should return. The tiny audience the games attracted doesn't exactly suggest that America has been waiting all these years to get a glimpse of Big Green football. Public television, however, doesn't exist solefy for big ratings--that's the job of ABC, CBS, and NBC, if PBS can serve a public need defined other than by the number of people who want to watch a given program, then by all means it should do so. That's how we end up with driver education programs...
...Tina Bochart no longer answers the telephone at State Bank of Dannebrog, Neb., with a cheery "Good morning. State Bank." Instead, she simply says, "FDIC." Bochart, a former assistant cashier, goes on to explain that State Bank, the only bank in town, has folded and been taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. "We're here," she says, "until things are cleaned up." The closing is a severe blow to Dannebrog, a farming village of 380, where the landmarks are groves of giant sycamore trees, a Lutheran church spire and the Silver Dollar Bar. Ray Johnson, owner of Johnson...
...choose a lens, but subtler matters such as how to recognize a good picture and how to compose one. How to Watch Pro Football, produced by the National Football League, uses illuminating stop-action photography and expert commentary from N.F.L. coaches, including Tom Landry and Don Shula, to explain basic concepts that are rarely covered by Sunday-afternoon color commentators. One of the most ambitious cassettes is Strong Kids, Safe Kids, in which Host Winkler guides parents and children through a discussion of sexual abuse. If the tone seems somewhat alarmist, the mix of interviews, songs and animated segments brings...
...travel, self-help. The future of home video is the creation and translation of all these books to video." Observes Austin Furst, president of Vestron Video: "It's going to be a good business someday, but built brick by brick." All the industry needs now is a cassette to explain how to stack them...
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