Word: various
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Changes in this year's program have been implemented partially as a response to criticism of last winter's effort, students said. Many students have expressed mixed feelings about AWARE week, calling attention to what they described as a low turnout at the various speeches, films and forums held in February...
Communist Party chief Egon Krenz called for an emergency party congress next month, the official ADN news agency said. He indicated a new Central Committee will be elected to carry out various reforms aimed at stopping East Germans from going West...
...addition to its melange of news and features, the glitzy, hour-long Roll Call airs a regular segment on the FBI's Most Wanted List that, with the aid of computer graphics, profiles suspects in various disguises -- beards, glasses and hairpieces. "We provide officers with important information when they need it -- before they hit the streets," says co-anchor Maffett, 1983's Miss America. The network also serves up half-hour instruction programs with names like Street Beat, Command Update and Alert, Alive & Well. Relying on 50 experts nationwide, the shows dish out training information on everything from shooting techniques...
...format. His set has no desk; instead, Hall interviews guests on a modish chair-and-sofa ensemble, leaning forward intently. There is no Ed McMahon- style sidekick; Hall prefers to trade quips with the crowd or play around with the band in recurring bits like the "poetry moments," featuring various sidemen reading silly verse. Musically, the show has brought on a host of rock performers -- Kool Moe Dee, Living Colour, Winger -- who rarely get exposure on mainstream TV. And in contrast to the carefully stage-managed routines on the Tonight show, Hall's manic energy sends a signal that just...
...that time, 283 of the participants, all of whom were in good health at the start of the study, had died. And after allowing for various other health-affecting factors, including smoking, age, cholesterol levels, weight, blood pressure and family history of heart disease, they found that deaths were sharply higher in the least-fit category than in the second-most- sedentary group -- more than double for men and almost twice as high for women...