Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broadcasting point out that the insufficiency of that service is probably less attributable to the networks than to the local channels. Affiliated stations frequently undercut the networks' efforts to increase cultural and public-affairs programming by refusing to carry it. Similarly, in order to increase profits, the stations stint on such programming at home. A recent informal poll of local newspaper editors by the trade paper Variety found that in their opinion more than 100 U.S. channels did not properly serve the interests of the community...
...Robert Finch, who once considered an acting career, starred in the segment. And waiting in the wings is Spiro Agnew. The Vice President will introduce Red Skelton's new fall show on NBC. Lest he carry this show-business gig too far, Agnew then nixed a Laugh-In stint-even though his boss did a turn with Rowan and Martin in pre-presidential days...
...written by George Church, edited by Marshall Loeb and re-searched by Eileen Shields and Claire Barnett in his native Australia until 1939, when he joined the Australian News and Information Bureau in New York. His 15 years at TIME were interrupted only by a four-year freelance writing stint. To his friends he was a rare, complex, rewarding and endearing man. His death is a keen loss to his colleagues, to TIME and to its readers...
...only for menial jobs. As early as 1919, Whitney Young's father earned $300 a month as a Ford Motor electrical engineer and was one of the best-paid blacks in the U.S. Henry Ford II worked under a black foreman while doing a stint in the engine department between college terms...
...story was written by Lance Morrow, edited by Jason McManus and researched by Marion Knox. Lance has been involved with the flag, government and politics since a stint as a Senate page gave him his first closeup look at congressional figures, including Senators