Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...story back on his home turf. In another spasm of turmoil at the angst-ridden House of Murrow, CBS News president David Burke, 54, was forced to resign after two years on the job. Eric Ober, 48, a 24-year veteran of CBS who currently runs the five local stations that the network owns, will become the fourth news president since Laurence Tisch took over the network four years ago. Although CBS executives denied that Burke was ousted because of budget disputes, the move appeared to mark another chapter in the continuing struggle between CBS News and its cost- conscious...
...role: private schools, as they do today, would have to abide by state certification standards and could not racially discriminate. Chubb and Moe also suggest that there could be extra financial incentives to encourage schools to accept problem students. Thus even potential dropouts would have an alternative to their local...
...would be those schools that attract a full enrollment of students, probably through innovative programs or a demonstrated record of academic success. But the real victors would be children of the poor and the hard-pressed urban middle class, who now have no alternative other than attending their crumbling local public school. And if some publicly run schools fail to compete successfully, they would go out of business. A brutal system perhaps, but one guaranteed to shake the torpor out of American education...
...Trump has allegedly paid his Genovese dues, perhaps unwittingly. Last month Trump took the stand in Manhattan's federal court to deny that he knowingly hired 200 illegal Polish aliens to demolish a building in Manhattan in 1980 to make way for his glittering Trump Tower. Members of Housewreckers Local 95, who also accuse their own president in the scheme, allege that Trump was able to avoid making payments that would now total $1 million (including interest) into the union's pension funds. % "You can bet there was a wise guy somewhere in the background," says an FBI specialist...
...Trump spokeswoman calls this speculation "preposterous." Maybe so, but Housewreckers Local 95 was identified in a 1987 government report as being controlled by the Genovese gang. In 1984 the union's three highest officials were convicted of racketeering in an unrelated case...