Word: granting
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...center was founded in 1978 by its present president, Philosopher Charles Frankel, with a $625,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Bennett must regularly remind himself, "What are we doing for the public?" Sometimes he is part of the response. A Harvard Law School graduate, he serves on a committee advising the American Bar Association on a code of ethics for lawyers. He has participated in a TV panel discussion on Jonestown, organized by Frankel, who not only continues to teach at Columbia but also mans an office that the N.H.C. maintains in New York City. Long...
...more than 200 stations were open a week ago Sunday when scuffles and fistfights broke out at several of them as fuming vacationers waited for gasoline in lines that sometimes stretched for blocks. In California, where drivers are now lining up before dawn and service station operators grant appointments like doctors, a customer at a San Francisco self-service pump jumped to the head of the queue, then stabbed a man in line behind him who tried to protest. In Miami, some drivers tank up and roar off without paying when attendants turn their backs...
...Toronto seats, but the Conservatives held an 11-point lead in the polls three weeks ago. Recent surveys, however, show the Liberals have narrowed the margin to five points, and the number of undecided voters has risen. Trudeau's campaign magic may yet sway the Canadian electorate to grant him four more years...
...Luce Professorship, funded from a $50,000 Luce Foundation Grant, is one of fifteen established at American universities...
...VIOLENCE. Potentially interesting subjects, especially when you're talking about television. Robert Wood, one-time president of CBS, for example, vetoes a script for The Waltons because it describes (in lurid and graphic detail) Mary Ellen's "confused reaction to her first menstrual period." Lee Grant--Phyllis to sitcom junkies-- asks her daughter whether she lost her virginity on a ski weekend with a group of teenagers. "The subject matter was simply unacceptable for Family Viewing. It dealt too directly with sex." CBS editors jokingly called the episode--which the writer titled "Bess, Is You a Woman Now,"--"Did Bess...