Word: greates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, the winners are all predetermined anyway, or that's what the Alumni Association--that great coordinator of the graduates from the World's Greatest University--would have us believe. Indeed, Diane Jellis, assistant director of classes and reunions for the Alumni Association, noted when she announced the finalists that, "There were no surprises. People usually know who will rise to the surface...
...People have to recognize the fact that many of these mothers are young women saddled with a great deal of responsibility," says Dennis. "They need help in many different areas to be able to get work and be productive and effective...
...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...
...than opposition polls had indicated -- a considerable achievement for a dictator after 15 years in power. Said Labor Minister Alfonso Marquez de la Plata: "The plebiscite was a personal triumph for the President and an electoral defeat for his collaborators. It's a clear demonstration that he enjoys a great deal of civilian support...
...networks get themselves into such a mess? To a great extent, they are victims of a changing TV universe. "The networks are not doing anything wrong," says Ted Turner, the veteran network basher who tried to take over CBS three years ago. "It's like AM radio. They weren't doing anything wrong either, but FM radio was better." Years of colossal audiences and soaring ad revenues, however, bred complacency. "The networks closed their eyes to reality," says Ralph Baruch, former president of Viacom International and now a senior fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies. "They didn...