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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...educational. "I assume our viewers are intelligent." Koppel says. "But like Mark Twain said. All people are ignorant about some things.' But to admit that 'Nightline' is an 'educational program' would be to sound its death knell. Television generally does a pretty lousy job with information and--God forbid--education...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: The ABC's of Ted Koppel's 'Nightline' | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

Some funeral directors say that expensive coffins will prevent a body from decaying or that bodies must be in caskets before they can be cremated. The new rules forbid such misleading claims. In addition, morticians must notify customers that embalming is not legally required in most circumstances. Many funeral directors embalm routinely. In one instance a truck driver was burned beyond recognition in an Illinois crash. Nonetheless, the funeral home charged his family for embalming and cosmetology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Move to Ease Death's Sting | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being." The weight of existence descends on Tomás and Tereza. Homesick and upset by her husband's continued philan-gdering, she returns to Czechoslovakia, and he follows, knowing that the i authorities will forbid him to practice medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Songs of Exile and Return | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...have only been promised and provided that we give America our lands for military purposes as listed in the so-called. Free Association Compact. We have been promised and only if we forbid other nations from doing what the United States wants to do with our islands--that is dominate us militarily...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: A Failed Trust | 4/7/1984 | See Source »

...York is hardly alone in its bottle dilemma. Other jurisdictions, including California and the District of Columbia, technically forbid brown bagging but allow it in practice. (Some states, such as Illinois and Massachusetts, have no laws prohibiting customers from bringing alcoholic beverages into restaurants.) To straighten out the New York mess, legislative wheels are now in motion for passage of an amendment allowing brown bagging with the consent of restaurant owners. Officials at the SLA are taking the position that they were only doing their job. "We're dutybound to go after [violations]," said one spokesman. "If people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Sour Grapes in the Big Apple | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

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