Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Grant Tinker replaced Silverman in 1981, Tartikoff seemed a sure bet to take the fall for NBC's ratings troubles. But Tinker stuck with him. "I think he is the best guy to do that job - it's that simple," says the NBC chairman. One of Tartikoff s severest problems was that top producers were reluctant to bring their shows to NBC. "The unfortunate thing for the last-place ball team is that you don't get to hit against your own pitching," he explains. "Producers went to NBC third because they didn't want...
...joint liaison group" composed of 25 representatives from both China and Britain, will set up an office in Hong Kong in 1988. The treaty also stresses that the group cannot interfere directly in Hong Kong's affairs, thus tempering local fears that China may be tempted to tinker with the colony before it formally assumes sovereignty...
...works that have borrowed on the Philby affair, the most successful has been John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, a maze-like thriller that details the entrapment and confession of a double agent. It was Le Carre who gave currency to the word "mole," a term denoting a traitor implanted deep in an intelligence network that is now a fixed part of espionage jargon. And while Le Carne and others like him explore the professional side of the celebrated case, others concentrate on the story's personal dimensions. This summer's highly acclaimed film, Another Country, based...
...what can be done for undergraduate education here. There are still too many bad section leaders, too many uncaring professors in the stereotypical mold. You should think about pressuring some of these departments that provide students with little guidance and poor tutorial instruction, to make reforms. And why not tinker with the Core to let students have the option of more survey courses and departmental prerequisites...
Professors say they are responding to growing student interest in the field by offering more courses, working to expand the faculty and offering more CLAIS-sponsored forums. Also significant, they say, is a Tinker Foundation grant used for undergraduates and graduate students to fund travel and study abroad. Last year 25 students and professors used the money to visit Latin America...