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...channels will try to compete with MTV by aiming at a broader audience. MTV plays mostly hard rock that appeals to a viewership whose ages range from about twelve to 34. DMN and CMC will serve up a wider spectrum of music, from jazz to country, for an audience in the 25-to-49 category. The channels will adjust the hardness quotient of the programming throughout each 24-hour cycle, playing easy-on-the-ears music during the day and funkier fare for after-school hours and late at night. The newcomers, though, will have to share this concept...
Augustynski says his main concern as a member of the Athletics committee will be to gain wider student access to University athletic facilities. Among his priorities are expanding the intramural programs and increasing the number of sports classes offered...
Scores of U.S. and foreign officials are invited for similar informal encounters. At these small gatherings, the people who report the news at TIME get a wider picture of the people who make it. The receptions are held throughout the year, but take on an added bustle in the first weeks of autumn, when government leaders converge on New York City for the United Nations General Assembly. In the ten-day period prior to their breakfast with Sepulveda, TIME journalists met with the President of Argentina (in this case, at his New York City hotel), the Prime Minister of Lebanon...
...TIME'S latest Yankelovich survey, voters ages 18 to 24 said they were backing or leaning toward Reagan over Walter Mondale by the astonishing margin of 45 points, 63% to 18%-a lead nearly ten points wider than in any other age bracket. Under-25 voters admitted more frequently that they could "pretty easily" change their minds, however, and historically the young vote in numbers half those of the electorate at large...
...reasserting his commitment to negotiation rather than confrontation as a means of settling disputes. He was expected to list three short-term U.S. goals in dealing with Moscow: a series of discussions on regional crisis areas, including Afghanistan, Central America and southern Africa; comprehensive arms-control negotiations; and wider agreements on trade, cultural and scientific affairs...