Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lucrative air time, and the hour daily network newscast remains a daydream. That standoff has given the noncommercial Public Broadcasting Service a chance to top its giant rivals: last week Anchors Robert MacNeil and James Lehrer doubled up their MacNeil-Lehrer Report, a nightly half hour on some single topic that was the most widely viewed program on PBS, into a multi-issue roundup, The MacNeil/Lehrer Lehrer NewsHour. Though envious, the commercial networks applauded. Said NBC News President Reuven Frank: "We hope the hour is so successful that we are forced to emulate...
Last night's debut "Inquiry," as the series is called, used the vague topic "What is Law?" as a springboard for student-faculty discussion. But more startling than the predictable student-faculty disputes was the intra-faculty dissension...
...course the frustration that plagues many of the ACSR's members is partly an unavoidable result of the Committee's normal business--moral debate. Put four students, four professors and four alumni together, ask them to discuss any controversial topic and you're bound to get a considerable number of inconclusive and wearying exchanges. But the major cause of the frustration felt by many members of the ACSR lies elsewhere...
...issue and examined more evidence, several members who had balked at the rigid use of the Sullivan Principles as the standard of corporate behavior and at the establishment of fixed limits on correspondence with the managements of delinquent companies accepted these positions. General divestiture became a viable topic for debate...
Researchers at SPH's Center for Population Studies organized the program, funded by the grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, because the topic of migration and economic development has recently been neglected by scholars, David Bell, director of the center, said yesterday...