Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also a fundamental aspect of the citizen's share in government. "The jury, which is the most energetic means of making the people rule, is also the most effective means of teaching it to rule," said Alexis de Tocqueville. Thomas Jefferson described the jury system as "the only anchor ever yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution...
...treatment of his NBC Magazine with David Brinkley. The show was pitted first against CBS's top-rated Dallas, later against The Incredible Hulk. Brinkley denied reports of contractual disputes with NBC News President William Small. More significant, perhaps, was the news that Today Host Tom Brokaw will anchor Nightly News with Roger Mudd starting next April. Said Brinkley last week: "I'm not happy to be leaving, but there's nothing at NBC that I really want...
...Trailer, a former cowboy who had a Saturday morning children's T.V. show about seven years ago. Now he leads trips to exciting Walt Disney World over April school vacation and, on Labor Day, helps raise money for Jerry's kids. Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobsen, Channel 5's anchor team and newlyweds who recently had their first child (many dollars are pledged in the name of 14-week-old Lindsay Dawn). Jess Cain, who's been spinning records early in the morning since about forever. John Willis, the lethargic host of Channel 5's wake-up-slowly Morning Magazine...
...1970s, the baby-boom children were "singles," the glamour class of childless sybarites that had responsibilities to no one other than themselves. A decade later, they are dropping anchor. Harvard Demographer George Masnick foresees them aspiring "to put down roots, to plant gardens, to rake the leaves." Already, says he, "young men and women are moving to the country in droves, trying to get away from the singles bars, the single apartment complexes...
...Chancellor asked Ustinov why the British people love the royal family so, Ustinov said it was the same drive that makes them "rip out seats at football matches. I think they're trying to find their origins." CBS was the most restrained of the three networks in its anchor-desk prattle, preferring for the most part to pass along the elegant and understated coverage provided...