Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nominate Senator Denton's hare-brained scheme to appropriate $30 million for a program to promote teen-age chastity for Senator Proxmire's "Golden Fleece" award...
...bodily harm to a person." Judgments were necessarily subjective. An objectionable "sexual-intercourse scene" occurred whenever the monitor was "left with the opinion that sexual intercourse occurred," on screen or off, inside or outside marriage. Monitors were instructed to jot down what products were advertised on each program. Wildmon then calculated, by computer, the average incidence of sex, violence and profanity that a company sponsored per 30-sec. commercial. According to Wildmon, the monitors were recruited mostly from church groups and were trained by volunteers who showed video tapes and conducted practice sessions. Otherwise their work was unsupervised. Wildmon...
...random showed that only 13% supported a lobbying campaign to change TV content. Only about 2% said they would support a boycott to serve the coalition goals and had boycotted products in the past. Moreover, avowed members of the Moral Majority (6.6% of the sample) had the same program preferences as other Americans...
...felt we had been nebulous regarding the subject at (proctor's) orientation." John Hayes, a senior counselor in the secondary school program and an assistant to McDonald who was at the Monday meeting, said yesterday. "Maybe they didn't get the message then, but they have gotten it now," he added...
...running the tourney have failed. Current President Merton E. Thompson sent letters to all club members asking for help, as did Harold Solomon, president of the ATP and this year's second seed. But many who offered aid were turned aside. One person wanted to sell advertising for the program; bickering over commissions and authority finally drove her away, as they have so many others...