Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taber, with International Editor Karsten Prager and Economy & Business Senior Editor Charles P. Alexander, moderated the sessions. Says Prager: "The meeting provided a forum in which all sides could not only present their own situations but elicit immediate responses and debate from their counterparts." Alexander observes: "The discussions gave us a unique worldwide perspective. To find out how economists from opposite sides of the world view the same event was enlightening...
...year-old Moscow student who becomes a teacher, is a real and sympathetic individual. The unstated implication is that she also is typical. The people shown were to a degree handpicked, but BBC Producer Richard Denton was at least able to interview them without his Soviet guides being present. However, he quickly concedes, "they've been coached all their lives...
...thesis can be seriously challenged is a rebuttal scheduled. In an American documentary, each side of an issue -- Right-to-Life or abortion -- is balanced out, in effect adding up to zero. The trick then is to choose a subject bold enough to attract listeners but to present it so neutrally that the network does not end up in later hassles. Perhaps this is why on all three networks documentaries are a dutiful and dying form...
...Garbage haulers decided to go back to work after Common Pleas Court Judge Edward J. Blake declared that some 2,400 strikers and their leaders were in contempt for ignoring his back-to-work order earlier in the week. Blake had ruled that the garbage constituted a "clear and present danger" to the public health and that the strikers should start cleaning up the mess. Mayor W. Wilson Goode then announced that he could hire 2,400 sanitation workers in 24 hours and threatened to fire workers who defied the ; court's back-to-work order. "Tell them...
Town pension funds that limit their investments, past and present, to an established list of corporations without South African ties, would be permitted to make riskier but more lucrative investments than those currently allowed by state guidelines if the bill passes, Blanchette said...