Word: interrupting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WBUR, affiliated with Boston University, will air specially prepared requests for money in between its musical programs and the nationally syndicated programs "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" will for the first time interrupt their news programs to ask for contributions. Jane Christa, a WBUR spokesman, said...
Usually, member stations stage their own fund drives, preventing NPR from asking any listeners for money. Christa said, adding that even during this emergency some local stations are not willing to interrupt their programs with place for money...
Across America last week, the nation's farm land had a bizarre new look. In Kansas, large brown patches of stubble-studded earth interrupt shimmering golden carpets of ripening winter wheat. In Nebraska, idle center-pivot sprinklers stand like outsize scarecrows over many once verdant cornfields. In California, more than half of the acreage normally devoted to rice lies uncultivated. The cause of the crop cutback is not drought or disaster but a new federal program that rewards farmers, partly in cash and partly in grain and cotton, for taking large tracts of land out of production. Called payment...
Tony is not halfway to the end of his adventures when he follows Miss Doubloon to her home town. Absurdities interrupt non sequiturs. Plot grows so complicated that it seems easier to tell than summarize. But De Vries is only half kidding. The fine cutting edge of his comic vision comes, as always, from the sense that there is hell to pay. The author, a resident staffer at The New Yorker, was raised a Dutch Calvinist, and he is a past master at striking antithetical poses. He is at once the liberal humanist, tolerantly condoning free expression and yearnings...
...less damaging. University of Wisconsin researchers exposed monkeys to loud, irritating noise but allowed half of them to interrupt the sound by pulling on a chain. Though both groups of monkeys were exposed to the same noise, those with access to the chain showed lower levels of stress-related hormones in their blood. Being in control seemed to make the difference...