Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Stone's is the first of 15 famous faces -- interspersed with gripping footage of felled redwoods, fish deformed by ocean dumping and smokestacks belching black clouds of toxins -- that appeared in a half-hour television ad seen this summer throughout California. The program was designed to build support for "Big Green," the most sweeping of four environmental initiatives that will go before state voters this November. By then they may be scratching their head trying to keep the proposals straight...
...called CAREFUL, which they say would achieve the same level of food safety as Big Green through less drastic means. Dubbed Big Brown by its critics, the proposal would outlaw the transport of food in vehicles also used to carry hazardous substances and set up a $25 million research program to develop alternatives to pesticides. Big Green supporters charge that CAREFUL simply restates existing pesticide laws. At the same time, the timber industry has united behind the New Forestry Initiative, which it says would ban clear- cutting only in old-growth forests while reducing the practice 50% in all others...
...banks. However, there is a tiny little catch, as an accompanying letter explains. The deposited check gives the task force the right to withdraw $12.50 a month from the individual's account for what it calls candidate escrow funding. Lucky recipients of the checks are allowed to exit the program after two payments have been extracted -- there goes the $25 -- but they are encouraged to remain participants and painlessly, perhaps endlessly, go on contributing $12.50 a month to the G.O.P...
...Last February, Ray Victurine, 35, left a job with an international agency in La Paz, Bolivia, to follow his wife to Seattle, where she had landed a job with a family and health organization. Four wageless months passed before Victurine found consulting work and settled on entering a Ph.D. program. "You begin to question your self-esteem," he admits...
...these familial, regular-Jane instincts that have made Pauley shine brightest in a galaxy of female TV news superstars. Diane Sawyer has the beauty and brains but neither the warmth nor a program that shows her off to much advantage. Connie Chung's recent announcement that she is taking time off to get pregnant seemed a bizarre blurring of the line between public and private selves, just the sort of thing Pauley has so gracefully avoided...