Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Commission, with representatives for everyone from the environmentalists to the peace movement, has set out to hold hearings nationwide on how to make institutional changes. Most likely, the Commission will propose election reforms to ensure greater voter turnout and more accurate representation for those voters...
...certainly doesn't make the Massachusetts environment conducive to bringing businesses in," said Tod Beaty, president of the Harvard Square Business Association. "It's going to be a shock for any company that didn't have to charge its customers before...
...painting by a contemporary artist goes for $50,000, a print for $4,000. Regina Spelman, an editor at the German-language Harper's Bazaar, sees vast amounts being spent on apparel: "Germans use clothes to define their place in society and are willing to spend a lot to make a statement." Hamburg Designer Peter Schmidt notes that "people are willing to pay to surround themselves with well-designed things." Kurt Gustmann, an editor at the magazine Schoner Wohnen in Hamburg, points to a general pattern of cultivating leisure activities based on long weekends...
...media options. "We had one television in the house, and we had to watch the news when Daddy came home," recalls Steve Friedman, 43, executive producer of NBC's Nightly News; today's young people "have got their own TV and their own video systems." Friedman is trying to make the NBC newscast "more relevant" to young viewers by stressing family issues and adding touches of irreverent humor. Louis Heldman, who is studying how to counteract declining readership for the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain, observes that people today, especially young working women, have less spare time for news. "Information needs...
...popularity of the new, lighter media forms," such as People magazine and TV's A Current Affair. The survey may give news executives a further excuse to soften and glitz up their products to try to woo the young. But that means walking a tricky tightrope: in trying to make the news more appetizing, they risk turning it into something other than the news...