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Woodruff,who came to Washington with President Carter's election 1977,recently became the Washington anchor for NBC's Today show...
Other companies, large and small, report phenomenal new interest in their products. The packaging group of giant Anchor Hocking Corp. (1981 sales: $953 million) has been flooded with calls for its various lines of vacuum seals for glass food jars since the Tylenol tragedy. "Customers have even come down to the plant to speed up their orders," notes Senior Vice President Vincent Naimoli. PCM Corp. of Roslyn Heights, N.Y. (1981 sales: $10 million), anticipates a boom. Says Executive Vice President Bob Baraker: "We expect our business to go up by half or even double in the year ahead, and that...
...after moving up in the big market rally; it was at $29 two months ago when the Dow Jones industrial average began its 250-point climb. The low level of the I stock helped fan suspicions held by I Garrett and others that the purchase I served mainly to anchor the company against possible takeover by lowering its cash reserves and increasing the number of shareholders...
...hours spent following Presidents Carter and Reagan to functions devoid of news value, just in case something catastrophic might happen. Says Woodruff: "The practice is sometimes referred to ghoulishly as 'the death watch.' " When a crisis actually erupted, Woodruff was sometimes turned into a sort of impromptu anchor, transmitting information from other NBC reporters rather than going after it. Although she was an eyewitness to the attempted assassination of President Reagan, once she had scrambled back to the White House she spent most of the rest of the afternoon rooted to one spot, facing a camera, while fellow...
...STATION should heed these lessons, it's channel 7. Viewer rejection of the channel, even with the popular John Henning (who's now anchoring channel four, by the way) suggests not so much a rejection of Henning as the news operation itself. Perhaps the viewers simply didn't feel channel 7 was doing a credible job of reporting the news. Perhaps instead of bringing in high-priced anchor talent, a handful of skilled reporters could have been hired to improving much more of the news operation...