Word: formation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next night, Rather departed from the customary Evening News format to offer a personal word. Along with a kind of primer on journalism -- "Trying to ask honest questions and trying to be persistent about answers is part of a reporter's job" -- he served up a tepid mea culpa on having cut Bush off at the end: "Ending live television interviews under time pressures sometimes isn't done as gracefully as we hope or intend, and last night was one of those times...
Sections will count for 10 percent of all students' grades, no matter which section format they elect, Ruttiman said. Although he would not say exactly how the grades will be determined, Ruttiman said that half of the section grade will depend on a special presentation in section, and the other half will depend on participation...
...keep-moving rules for the corridors, and set up a dress code forbidding hats and any gangish or come-on clothing. Students who got to school late or cut class could expect latrine or graffiti-scrubbing duty. Says Clark: "Discipline is the ultimate tenet of education. Discipline establishes the format, the environment for academic achievement to occur...
While both types of recorder are fairly simple to use, there are differences in the technology. Most important, tapes for one machine cannot be played on the other kind; the VHS cassettes are larger. Proponents of the Betamax format insisted all along that its picture quality was superior to what VHS offered, but most consumers either did not know that or did not care. Says Leonard White, president of Orion Home Video: "Beta is the perfect example of a better technology being outgunned by consumer preference...
...Sony decision leave the 20 million U.S. owners of Betamax machines? Most likely on the road to that vast consumer-electronics graveyard where orphaned home computers and other gadgets go. Though Sony says it will not stop producing Beta machines or tapes, industry experts are skeptical about the format's prospects. Says Makoto Tamaki, an electronics analyst at the Industrial Bank of Japan: "Someone who is going to buy a new recorder is likely to choose a VHS. There is the anxiety that Sony might stop making Beta...