Word: got
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face value, we've got an impressive list of would-be Class Marshals to choose from. These are people who are dying to spend their time counting your Commencement tickets, looking for your Class Day speakers, scheduling your parties and coming to every commencement and reunion from here to eternity. And with the qualifications they have, rest assured that our senior week will be the best ever, far outshining the pitiful efforts of the resumestuffers of years past...
...pressure became too great. Local TV was showing black congressional employees working in sweatshop conditions; Roll Call, a Capitol Hill weekly, was printing stories of sexual harassment of female workers. So last week the House finally applied the anti-discrimination laws to itself. It got around the separation-of-powers argument neatly by setting up an office staffed by its own members and employees to enforce the law -- a solution that was just as readily available in 1964. The Senate is expected to follow suit next year...
...blitzes. For one thing, there is too much happening elsewhere on the dial, from PBS to pay cable. For another, authentic new network hits seem harder and harder to come by. When the audience for network TV was huge and habitual, nearly anything that programmers threw out at least got sampled. Today most new shows seem doomed to demise unless they get a time slot next to an established hit. Of the 22 network series introduced last fall, only two wound up in the season's Top 30. One, A Different World, had the foolproof time period after The Cosby...
...Cable reaches 52.8% of all U.S. TV homes, up from 17.5% ten years ago, according to the A.C. Nielsen Co. Viewers who got their homes wired back in the 1970s were attracted mainly by the promise of better reception and pay- cable movies. Now they can sample a growing smorgasbord of fare, from news and sports to music videos. Flush with ad revenues, cable networks are competing aggressively for programming. ESPN, for example, has picked up a package of Sunday-night NFL games that are bringing record high ratings for the sports network. Cable may also bid for the rights...
...people , from technicians to network censors, have been laid off at the Big Three in the past two years. Although some further postelection cuts are anticipated at CBS News and NBC News, the bulk of the reducing is probably over. "We need all the people we've got right now," says Capital Cities/ABC chairman Thomas Murphy. "I would think the other networks would be finished also...