Word: arens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason" indeed. The whole affair smells fishy from a distance of three weeks, so one can only imagine the stench on the day of the uprising. A coup may sound like a good idea, if for no other reason than eliminating a standing embarassment to the U.S. But coups aren't ideas; they're actions...
What's worse, Reagan demonstrates that former Presidents aren't just more popular than sitting Presidents; they get paid more...
California's big number was 6.9. But either a Richter scale is too abstract, or the numbers it produces aren't satisfyingly meaty enough. Right from the beginning, Ted Koppel was begging for some casualty counts that he could spread around...
Strange though it may sound, Bush--as President--is really the archetypal American observer of disaster. We aren't totally heartless, yet our sense of adventure lets us forget that what we're cheering on is real. Hence our underlying complacency--as if the whole disaster thing were a replacement for the World Series, and our team had the chance to pull together and score the most runs ever in a single game...
...nothing else, NBC executives seem guilty of violating a cardinal TV principle, the one about fixing things that aren't broken. Today is No. 1 in the morning-news ratings, and has been for nearly four years. Yet its margin over ABC's Good Morning America has been shrinking. For the past two weeks, Today has led by only 0.4 of a rating point, and it has fallen to second place in the key demographic group of women ages 25 to 54. "There were a lot of people who thought the show was a little stale," says an NBC executive...