Word: stations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possessed as I wandered the streets of midtown Manhattan questing after the appointment book that best reflected my station in life. I was briefly tempted by a Filofax until I remembered that all I needed was a datebook, not a new religion. And the Weight Watchers calendar just did not seem right for inscribing lunch engagements...
...Reagan put it eight years ago, if it served their interests. Gorbachev, who has reversed long-standing Kremlin policy by agreeing to on-site inspections of military installations, attempted in his U.N. speech to remove a major issue of compliance with the Antiballistic Missile Treaty: the Krasnoyarsk radar station. He said Moscow would accept the "dismantling and refitting" of certain components, and place the facility under U.N. control. At his lunch with Reagan and Bush just after the speech, one American asked, "Did we hear that word dismantle right?" Replied Gorbachev: "Yes, that was the word I used...
...Crete and close associate of high-level PASOK officials, is accused of misusing more than $209 million in bank funds. A key question is how Koskotas, not long ago a middle- ranking bank employee, succeeded in building an empire that comprised the bank, five magazines, three newspapers, a radio station and a popular soccer football team. The public also wonders how Koskotas managed to flee Greece while he was under around-the-clock surveillance by an antiterrorist squad. Greeks blame the government for botching the investigation. For his part, Koskotas, who is awaiting extradition from the U.S., has threatened...
Winsten also helped formulate new local public service announcements about the problem. According to Nance L. Guilmartin, national director of public affairs and station relations for Group W Television, which runs WBZ, Winsten and others hit upon the idea of "positive peer pressure," and focused on the designated driver, rather than simply on drunk driving...
...answer the line for three weeks, adding that she planned to solicit contributions as well. Yesterday she sat at a table in the City Hall lobby that she said several people mistook for an information desk, but she said posters and signs are on the way to make her station more permanent...