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Word: pbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...63rd birthday last week. Aside from the fact that the changing of the guard happened quietly and smoothly, a rare occurrence at any network headquarters, the biggest surprise was the man chosen as Frank's replacement: Lawrence Grossman, 52, president of the Public Broad casting Service (PBS) since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Over to You | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

Some say he also has a lot to contribute to the troubled news network. Grossman won general applause for guiding PBS through several financial crunches, and leaves a strengthened, and solvent, system with twice as many regular viewers (86 million) as it had when he arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Over to You | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...survey of 240 editors and reporters at the commercial networks PBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and TIME, Political Scientists Stanley Rothman of Smith College and S. Robert Lichter of George Washington University found that 48% believed that the Government should guarantee jobs, 68% argued that the Government should narrow the income gap between rich and poor, and 88% held that the U.S. legal system favors the wealthy. On social issues, 90% believed that women should have a right to an abortion, and only 25% considered homosexuality morally wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journalism Under Fire | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...best known in America as the erudite, stately host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. But in his native country, Alistair Cooke's claim to fame rests largely on his Letter from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 5, 1983 | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...ignorant hopeful pre-freshman was I. Although raised beyond the pale of college hockey. I learned all about the ECAC, the Beanpot, and Harvard vs. B.U. from PBS broadcasts in the mid-'70s (sadly discontinued). Rereading old accounts of Dave Connors's sudden-death heroics confirmed that the game was, indeed, a Big Deal...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: One More Time | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

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