Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though many Harvard Square passersby showed brief interest in U.S. Citizens Revolt, the demonstration itself was joined by only a few auxiliary protesters. The small group that clustered around Moynahan's make-shift table, said protester Courtney Miller, was "a loose group of crazy artist-types" participating in "the soap opera of social unrest...
...been to support Uncle Toms. De Klerk has publicly praised Black leaders who prefer gradual desegregation policies. After meeting with several Black evangelical leaders, for example, de Klerk was quoted as saying, "They told me that radicalism is representative of a small minority of the total black population and that the vast majority of all black South Africans are striving for moderate solutions...
Irises was owned by John Whitney Payson, who had lent it to a small university museum in Maine. But with the news of Sunflowers' sale for $39.9 million -- and with little tax relief in sight if he gave it to a museum -- he decided to sell it through Sotheby's, which cautiously predicted a price between $20 million and $40 million and went to tell Bond the glad news. Sotheby's did not need to cast a delicate fly over Bond and strip it softly in. The fish was already halfway over the gunwale and champing eagerly...
...same time, technology is breaking down the links that join networks to their affiliates, and is blurring the lines that distinguish big stations from small ones, and network affiliates from the country's 400 independent stations. The main culprit: satellites. By providing a relatively inexpensive electronic highway over which video signals can be transmitted, satellites have created a new industry of program suppliers that can offer local stations a broad variety of material once available only from the networks...
...stories that were once the domain of network reporters. California anchors fly off to Central America, Beijing and Tokyo. When East Germany began to break / down the Berlin Wall two weeks ago, dozens of local U.S. news teams headed to Berlin from markets as big as Seattle and as small as Manchester, N.H. Says John Spinola, general manager of Westinghouse-owned station WBZ in Boston: "Every time I look around, we've got someone out of the country...