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...Thursday, in the Nielsen ratings. They were a surprise: ABC, which pioneered the use of electronic whizbangery but which seemed low key, almost uninterested on Tuesday night, won with an average 11.8% of all U.S. television households. CBS, despite Rather's supercharged manner and a dazzling array of computer-generated graphics, was second, with 11.5%. NBC, with a presentation about halfway between CBS's dazzle and ABC's drowse (and with a stadium-type Scoreboard that was maddeningly difficult to read) ran its now customary distant third, with...
Another possible reason for the Socialists' sobriety was the realization that their victory had not solved the formidable array of problems facing the country. Among them: a recession-bound economy that has 16% unemployment and 12% inflation, the continuing threat of Basque terrorism and the bitter debates that are developing over Socialist promises to legalize abortion and to withdraw Spain from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization by referendum...
...sale of certain high-technology products as well as those related to the pipeline. The purpose of the two-day visit, says Council Spokesman William Forrester, will be to "seek ways of expanding permissible trade." That leaves the door open for a vast array of products ranging from spark plugs to fertilizer...
...symbolism enthusiasts there is also the array of stark American icons: sacks of dollars, sacks of dope, Los Angeles, rugged individualism, General Motors; the Mob, the FBI, a world famous fashion model, wheels and deals, movie stars, an All-America's daughter. Any graduate student...
...whose logical and philosophical underpinnings are the least obvious to observers. Though the national press did, as Keller notes, focus massive attention on the event as an educational revolution, academics across the country still express confusion as to what exactly the fuss was about Many thought the proposed array of 90 courses as a "core" of basic knowledge was a bit idiosyncratic. Others went further and called it ludicrous. The vast majority of outside observers failed to see the distinction between the Core "revolution" and its sagging predecessor. General Education. And students, as Keller seems implicitly aware throughout her narrative...