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...Faculty left the election format up to the council. The UC wasn't required to hold college wide elections, nor was it required to launch a massive publicity drive to attract candidates. But while it limited the voting process to its own representatives, its poster drive suggested that it wanted to give all undergraduates an opportunity to sit on the committees-in order to broaden students input. As it turned out, four of the seven people elected...
White met with his three fellow panelists before the debate. "We wanted to be sure that, given the rigid format, we would strike a balance," he says. "There was a need to cover as many subjects as possible, but we also hoped to dig deep, to get the debaters to be specific or maybe to say something unpredictable. Because I have been covering racial affairs since 1967, I insisted on including questions on civil rights, particularly as the issue had not been raised in the presidential debate the week before. And of course the questions to the two candidates could...
...higher-priced goods have slowed. Meanwhile, the company's ventures into new markets, like personal computers, have seemed sluggish and halfhearted. The worst blow came in videotape recorders. Sony's Betamax, which started the home-taping explosion, has been overtaken in sales by the VHS format adopted by most of its rivals...
...opportunity to debate on TV, the campaigners have spurned proposals for head-to-head confrontation and insisted instead that reporters ask questions, as the Reagan campaign demanded this year. Participation by journalists turns what could be an unpredictable, even uncontrolled, exchange into a variation on the safe, familiar format of a press conference...
...purpose of the seminars, taped last year, was to ask hard questions of policy makers and others confronting differing interpretations of the Constitution. The confrontational format of the 13-show series "makes it possible to stop people who are very important (form) baloney answers" to crucial questions. Nesson said yesterday...