Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central dispute between writers and producers is over syndication residuals for one-hour shows, the payments made to writers each time a network television show appears on an independent station. Writers now receive a flat fee of $16,000 for the first six syndicated reruns, but producers want to pay ! them according to a formula that takes into account total income from a show's sale. Writers say that method would significantly cut their average income, though producers deny this would happen...
...loudly proclaiming him the apparent nominee, Dukakis was modestly observing, "It's not over until it's over, and I mean it." His mode of travel was similarly humble at day's end: he walked across the Boston Common from the Massachusetts State House to the Park Street T station to start his customary half-hour subway ride home to Brookline...
During the attack, air force personnel, flying a Boeing 707 fitted with electronic jamming devices, hovered about 100 miles outside Tunisian airspace, close enough to jam communications in the area. The Boeing 707 also served as a relay station between Israeli personnel off the Tunisian coast, the hit squad and I.D.F. headquarters in Tel Aviv. Throughout the operation, the commanding general, Ehud Barak, 47, the army's Deputy Chief of Staff, stayed aboard the vessel in the Mediterranean. Barak had participated in a similar operation in April 1973, when Israeli commandos raided Palestinian headquarters in Beirut, killing three P.L.O. leaders...
...area is still too distant for Bok. Does an ethical education include concern for the community right outside Harvard--that is, the 90,000 residents of Cambridge? If so, maybe Bok could enlighten his students about the need for the new hotel that will destroy the Harvard Square Gulf station--an old-fashioned, unimposing building that advertises itself as "the last parking garage before Harvard Square." Of course, he delayed enlightening the tenants themselves, who guessed Harvard's plans only by hearing rumors and seeing trucks...
...present tenants of the Gulf station--like many members of the Cambridge City Council--think that the new hotel will create traffic, will remove desperately needed parking space, and will make Harvard Square uglier and more expensive. How does Harvard, speaking through Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill, counter these charges? With the comment, "Change is always threatening to people...