Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news networks contend, with some justice, that just the opposite has happened. News and information fill many more hours of the day than when Murrow was active, and more outlets are competing for stories. Lightweight cameras and satellites have enabled television to provide immediate hookups around the world. Broadcast journalism's collective impact on the civil rights movement, Viet Nam and Watergate more than matched Murrow's exposure of the excesses of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Moreover, Murrow's work for CBS was not without flaw. His intonations and gestures were often stagy, his language orotund, his judgments pious. He squandered...
...enjoy it," said William Gallagher, whose son rows on Pennsylvania's varsity lightweight crew. "I don't know why. It's not a fun sport. It's very intense...
...varsity lightweight coach always brings food to these races," Dan Cunningham of Rutgers said. "So this year we decided to throw up a tent and make it official...
...Clara L. Bui '86, co-captain of the women's lightweight crew team, says that the men still receive some preferential treatment in terms of better uniforms, the number of training trips, and the amounts of money that cover spring break meals...
...says, however, that because the friends group is so heavily endowed, Radcliffe is the only college in the nation which can afford a separate women's lightweight team. "We're so completely spoiled compared to other college programs," she says...