Word: stringers
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...sports events, including the baseball play-offs and World Series, the NCAA basketball tournament and the 1992 and '94 Winter Olympics -- though for sums that have been criticized as exorbitant. Some industry watchers contend that CBS, under president Laurence Tisch, is flailing for direction. But Broadcast Group chief Howard Stringer insists that the big sporting events, along with a push for more adventurous programming, will help recapture an audience that has grown rather jaded. "You cannot anymore launch shows that simply repeat yesterday's viewing patterns," says Stringer. "That's something we learned the hard way this year." Any other...
This is not to minimize the dazzling feats that the networks and their affiliates were able to pull off. Howard Stringer, the president of CBS Broadcast Group, was parking his car at Candlestick Park when the earthquake hit, and he subsequently spent hours searching for a working telephone or open airport. "It's remarkable that television got satellite feeds out at all, given that things weren't working even at a lower level of technology," he says. San Francisco's two dailies, also without power, had trouble making their deadlines with abbreviated editions, and newspapers across the country relied heavily...
Still, many families and friends supported the broader purpose. St. Louis stringer Staci Kramer obtained photographs from the mothers of two gun victims. "They want the world to know their children are more than statistics," Kramer explained. The sister of one victim told Chicago's Beth Austin that although her husband was a member of the National Rifle Association, she thought TIME's project "could save some lives." Atlanta stringer Joyce Leviton found that some relatives "wanted to talk for long periods, as if explaining to a stranger would help whatever had gone wrong." Pursuing a picture of a gang...
...Amherst College graduate, Banta was studying international relations on a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford when he began working for TIME in 1979 as a stringer. After postings in Chicago as a correspondent and in New York City as a writer, he took a leave of absence in 1984 to work as issues adviser for Gary Hart's first unsuccessful presidential campaign. When he rejoined TIME a year later, Banta headed for Vienna, which is home base for his five-day-a- week forays into Eastern Europe...
Most of the younger attorneys at the Middlesex courthouse deny that gender plays a large role in their everyday routines. Jo Ann Stringer, another public defender, says: "I feel very grateful to the women's movement, but I'm still figuring out how to be a good attorney, not a good woman attorney...