Word: informant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become problems? "The problem gambler has all the opportunity he needs right now," says Ritchie. "I'm not promoting legalized gambling. But the argument that legalized gambling will create problem gamblers is false." Nonetheless, a number of psychologists and sociologists emphasize the need for a vigorous educational program to inform the public ?particularly adolescents?about the risks that are as much a part of gambling as its potential profits and pleasures. Dr. Sirgay Sanger, for example, director of the Parent-Child Interaction Program at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan believes: "We've become a very materialistic and success...
...Please inform President-elect James Carter that he still doesn't owe Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo anything. It was the black vote that gave Carter Philadelphia and, in turn, Pennsylvania. For better or worse we did it for Carter, not Big Frank...
Here is just a sampling of what he asks the viewer to believe: that the anchor man of a mythical network's evening news (Peter Finch), about to be fired for low ratings, would inform his audience that in a week he will blow his brains out on-camera; that network executives would allow him back on the air in order to make a somewhat more dignified exit and then, when he crosses them up and announces that his trouble is that he has "run out of bullshit," they would not instantly cut him off the air; that...
...what might happen if certain current trends go unchecked? All of that is true enough, but the real problem is that Chayefsky has betrayed his own truest instinct about the medium. At one point he has William Holden, the news executive who functions as the movie's superego, inform Faye Dunaway, the ratings-mad exec who is its id, that the trouble with TV is that it reduces everything to banality. That may well be true. But at every turn Chayefsky's plot invests television with a sinister power to cloud men's minds, not through stupefying...
...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life yesterday voted to fine students one-quarter of one semester's room rent--approximately $150--if they fail to inform the College of their intention to take a leave of absence before August 20, the date when the first term bill...