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...official news show Vremya (Time). Instead they first saw a taped session in the office of Yegor Yakovlev, a reformist newspaper editor who had just been named head of state radio and television. Yakovlev had invited in several newscasters who had been barred from the airwaves by his predecessor, the hard-line Leonid Kravchenko, and asked them to put together a new evening news program, with almost no time to prepare. They did, fumbling through news copy and fluffing an occasional cue, but vowing repeatedly to tell the truth and only the truth...
Simpson moves into the job just as the sales staffs of the major Time Inc. magazines are being grouped together to achieve better combined and coordinated results. They are organized into four geographic regions, and her predecessor, Stephen Seabolt, is becoming regional advertising sales vice president for the West Coast. So we're not losing an ad sales director but / gaining an ad sales director and a vice president. The new setup suits Cleary fine because she can spend less time on administration and more time with clients. I suspect, given her preference, I won't find her behind...
Americans have a long history of prodding government to act when public health and dietary issues are at stake. Popular outrage over the Chicago meat- packing scandals, revealed in Upton Sinclair's 1906 classic, The Jungle, gave rise to both a meat-inspection law and the predecessor to the modern FDA. The discovery, during World War II, that many draftees suffered from beriberi and other vitamin B deficiencies led to the government's creation of the Recommended Dietary Allowances for vitamins and minerals...
...Bush appointee David Souter. Having written only a few rulings since joining the court this term, Souter remains something of an , enigma; yet he has clearly provided the right wing -- spearheaded by Rehnquist and Scalia -- with a crucial fifth vote in a number of important cases in which his predecessor Brennan would almost certainly have been on the opposing side...
Under Graham's predecessor, Paul N. Ylvisaker, "the school was more slanted towards broad policy research," Light says. "While [Bok] appreciated and respected it, he wasn't deeply involved...