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Last week public-TV officials took a decisive step toward reversing that trend, as the PBS board of directors gave final approval to a major revamping of the network's organizational structure. In the new setup, the crucial decisions about which programs will receive PBS funding -- previously made by a majority vote of the local stations -- will be in the hands of one executive. The plan, first unveiled last summer, has drawn objections from officials at several large PBS stations. Says William Baker, president of New York's WNET: "The whole world, even the Soviet Union, is going from...
...truth the Reds are strictly a pickup team, and Ole L.U. is a seasonal setup on the Vassar College campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The idea is to give selected employees a week-long immersion in exercise, self-improvement, competition techniques and the Lauder corporate outlook...
...like a sponge mop") are certainly warning signs. So is Alther's early summary of the passions that bind two women "Elke felt like a pile of nails being pulled to pieces by a magnet residing inside Clea." But such maladroit introductory passages could be dismissed as the ironic setup for a comic romp. Far more convincing instead to plunge to the heart of the novel for this glimpse of Clea's development: "She burned to take this lad to bed and teach him what she'd learned in a lifetime of licentiousness. Yet Dack was in love with...
...chaired by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, decides RTC policy and controls its funding. Congress agreed to give the Treasury a role so that the Administration would have a major stake in the bailout, but dividing responsibility has prompted feuding between the Treasury and the FDIC. "It is a perfect setup for blaming someone else," complains Seidman...
Porter's plan might also negate one of the most important advantages of the current system: higher rates of return to low-income workers. In the present setup, minimum-wage earners who contribute to Social Security over a full work life receive benefits of about 60% of their average monthly earnings before retirement. But workers who earn the maximum amount subject to Social Security taxes get benefits of about 27% of monthly earnings. Such redistributive payments are badly needed by most Social Security recipients, despite the overall increase in wealth among those 65 or older. A 1984 federal study shows...