Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House, members of Congress denounced the nation's radio talk-show hosts, who, along with consumer advocate Ralph Nader, helped foil the legislators' attempt at raising their own salaries. High-powered Washington journalist David S. Broder ridiculed radio jocks, accusing them of "knownothing demagoguery" in a recent column. And the film Talk Radio, loosely based on Denver host Alan Berg's life and death at the hands of neo-nazis, portrayed talk-show callers and the hosts as lunatics babbling bizarre opinions to moronic listeners...
...first thing that Broder and the other high-brow members of the Washington elite overlook when they condemn talk radio is the fact that there really are many informative programs out there. Just last week, Yale professor Paul Kennedy could be heard pushing his book, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, on three different talk-radio programs...
...when Congress passed the federal law forbidding employers to set a mandatory retirement age, it gave universities a seven-year exemption so that they could readjust their benefit plans and insure that they could maintain a high quality staff...
...pension plan in a field like academia, where there is a high turnover, must be designed so that professors who stay at Harvard for only a few years can take a certain amount with them...
...addition, the high cost of housing in Boston and the difficulty of luring two-career academic families are intensifying the competition to recruit the best junior faculty. Those concerns are particularly pressing, experts say, because the pool of high-quality young scholars has decreased, and will only get smaller in the 1990s...