Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...religious leaders' hardening determination to reign-and the spreading uneasiness about this among their erstwhile allies against the Shah-promises trouble. One respected Iranian political analyst, Fariborz Atapour, has forecast that a civil war will begin within two weeks. Writing in the daily Tehran Journal, he complained, "We know that a new constitution is about to be imposed on us, but since we do not know what it contains we cannot contest it. We can merely protest against the undemocratic way that the entire revolutionary aftermath is being handled." Given the theocratic rule now taking shape in Iran, Atapour...
...Pensacola, however, the Monkey Man was known as a prosperous businessman who wore sporty clothes and walked about on two artificial legs. He liked to read the Wall Street Journal and talk of his travels to Israel, Greece and Spain. He owned an $80,000 building, containing a disco called the Red Garter, a home worth $30,000, and had $16,000 in cash, $46,000 in Washington checking accounts and $365,000 in a bond account with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Then why did he go on begging? Said his banker: "I think it was a lifelong habit...
...decisions--in effect limiting the pool of programs that local stations have access to--the commission seems to step backward. In the past, local stations--which produced 60 per cent of programs broadcast in 1976--were responsible for the system's best programming. "Public broadcasting," argues The Wall Street Journal, "has evolved along lines that suggest the greatest impetus for creativity comes from the local stations, where program directors are faced with the daily challenge of finding something to put on the air." National fare tended to degenerate. "At a close look," television critic and authority Les Brown has written...
Chung has poured over the legislature's journal to find representatives and senators who supported similar legislation in the past and written explanatory letters to 30 legislators asking for support...
...revue form and forces us to share the events of her days from her unhappy first brush with sex (described in the song "Getting Home") to her careful analysis of her friends (the other four women in the show) which she reads to us in her solo "Journal...