Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Germans acted out of a mixture of motives: simple generosity, gratitude to Gorbachev, even a touch of guilt -- German CARE, a descendant of the postwar American relief program, addressed its shipments to cities like Kiev and Smolensk that had suffered most from Hitler's aggression during World War II. They also are worried that unless the food crisis is brought under control, Western Europe will face a flood of Soviet refugees. Nations along the Soviet border from Scandinavia to Czechoslovakia are bracing for that possibility. Fearing instability, Poland last week even decided to beef up its troop deployments along...
...drinking whiskey and blacking out by 12. By graduation, the onetime editor of the school newspaper was working as a legal secretary and using drugs, and was briefly a stripper. After an attempted burglary of a pharmacy, she landed before a judge, who decreed jail or a treatment program...
Ever since its creation in 1969, the Public Broadcasting Service has been an unwieldy, multiheaded beast. Most PBS series are initiated and produced under the auspices of individual stations, funded by a patchwork of public and corporate sources and scheduled (in many cases) according to the whims of local program directors. That worked well enough in the days when PBS was essentially the only alternative to the three commercial networks. But cable has made life more complicated. Such channels as the Arts & Entertainment Network and Superstation TBS have appropriated the kind of programming that was once unique to PBS, from...
...even the most vocal critics of the new plan have been assuaged by the person who will put it into practice. This new "programming czar" has more power than any predecessor but also a daunting task: maneuvering through the byzantine PBS bureaucracy. "What we wanted was a Solomon," says PBS president Bruce Christensen. "Someone with extraordinary political skills as well as program judgment. And someone who was willing to take the heat...
...about a Ms. Solomon? Jennifer Lawson, the former film professor and civil rights worker who was named to the job last November, has thus far been getting more huzzahs than heat. She basked in the glory of PBS's huge success of September, The Civil War. (The program was set in motion long before she arrived, but Lawson approved its unusual weeklong scheduling.) She has won praise for boosting PBS's profile with such ploys as running ads on the commercial networks. Most of all, she has tamed the ornery PBS bureaucracy with a mix of calm decisiveness and careful...