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Word: slots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While another chapter is being added to the Stones-Embry rivalry, senior McCulloh hopes he can fulfill a "dark-horse role." McCulloh, who has jumped in the shadows of Embree this season, also qualified for an Olympic trial slot...

Author: By Jon Ledeeky, | Title: Jumper Embree to Challenge Dwight Stones In NCAA Classic | 6/4/1976 | See Source »

...unlikely, under a quota system, that positions will go to the most qualified people available. At the time a position opens up it is unlikely that the most qualified applicant will by chance be a member of the race or minority group that is needed to fill the quota slot open at that time. In this case the most qualified applicant will lose his opportunity because of racist considerations. If the most qualified applicant does happen to belong to the right minority group, then the quotas are irrelevant because the person will be chosen anyway, if the basis for selection...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: Abolish Affirmative Action Quotas | 5/25/1976 | See Source »

...straight news after Mary Hartman, all you would hear is the sound of sets clicking off." Instead, MN2 is clicking with an audience that has doubled since the program went on the air three months ago. It now tops Los Angeles' five other independent stations in its time slot and is challenging ABC and the CBS late movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Following Mary | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...such innocent spontaneity--who gets involved in television anymore, and in such a sweet way? Even on television's only current live comedy show, the humor has a wicked cynical edge. On NBC's Saturday Night, which runs in the same time slot as Your Show of Shows, Chevy Chase was making jokes about the Italian earthquake and an actress playing a drunk Pat Nixon was complaining about not going to bed with Dick for fourteen years...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: T.V. | 5/13/1976 | See Source »

...will let her sleep until, well, at least 7:30 a.m. Some time between now and next fall, Walters will join an at first sulfurously reluctant Harry Reasoner in anchoring ABC's lagging Evening News. She will be the first woman ever to fill a regular network anchor slot, the most prestigious job in television journalism. She will also become history's highest-paid journalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Will the Morning Star Shine at Night? | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

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