Word: nationals
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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...
...frustrated and out of touch with the Washington elite--which many feel includes legislators and lobbyists, video news jockeys and journalists, talk radio has become the most vigorous medium for free speech, providing a podium and an audience to anyone who has a dime for a phone call. The nation needs muckrakers like Williams and his colleagues across the country to keep asking questions about where the country is headed and how it's getting there...
Clark's claims that he is suddenly interested in tolerating CLS viewpoints remind us of a very dirty campaigner's pledge to create a kinder, gentler nation. Rhetoric cannot hide the past. Clark's classroom antics and his qualifications as a corporate law expert should not obscure the fact that he was the wrong choice at the wrong time for the law school...
During the '40s, Parsons also sought to appoint two Soviet citizens who fought for the Nazis during the war, the article says. The Nation reports that the two were not allowed into this country, but they gathered information from other Soviets living in postwar Germany for the Russian Research Center...
...summer before the conference, DiMeglio said, each participating school is assigned a nation to represent, and given a "study guide" on topics to be discussed at the conference. Model U.N. organizers said that attending delegates accounted for approximately 140 of the 159 member countries in the United Nations...