Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power to determine their fate. For better or worse, the 1992 election promises to be a referendum on the record of the Bush Administration. Thus the Democrats, as they did throughout the Reagan years, are almost reduced to praying for an economic cataclysm. Political analyst Kevin Phillips, the author of the prophetic 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority, sees parallels between Bush and Harry Truman. Phillips contends that just like the Democrats this year, the Republicans ought to have won the 1948 election. Truman managed to mount one last crusade against the memory of Herbert Hoover, but the Republican triumph...
...seems so concerned about building an indictment that he fails to answer the question of what really made Ferdinand and Imelda tick. What drove them to accumulate billions they could never have spent in three lifetimes? What possessed her to buy those infamous closetsful of unworn shoes? Still, the author does persuade us that his subjects, Ferdinand in particular, were paradigmatically venal. Lyndon Johnson, no mean connoisseur of cads, may serve as final witness. After one encounter with the self- glorifying Marcos, L.B.J. called in Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy and warned, "If you ever bring that...
...solely by Sears' own corporate branches, in contrast to about 60% of the building's 13,000-worker occupancy now. The view from the 110th floor may have been fine, but the vision was blurred. "The tower might have been one of Sears' greatest miscalculations," says Donald R. Katz, author of The Big Store, a 1987 history of the company. "To many Americans and even to a lot of people who worked there, Sears went from being viewed as the nice store down the street to this remote, powerful corporation...
...furloughed a first-degree murderer named Willie Horton, who proceeded to rape a woman while on leave, few pointed out that the program had been instituted under a previous Republican Governor and that many states, including California under Governor Ronald Reagan, had similar furlough programs. Says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of a history of campaign advertising, of the Bush spots: "Never before in a presidential campaign have televised ads sponsored by a major party candidate lied so blatantly." In their efforts to be fair and balanced, reporters were also reluctant to single out Bush for the negative tone...
Some ABC executives may regret that they are telling this one. In selling ABC the rights to his 1,042-page tome, author Wouk (who also co-wrote the teleplay) demanded stringent restrictions on advertising. No commercials for personal-care products such as laxatives and foot powder. No commercial breaks longer than two minutes. Perhaps most galling to the network, no promotional spots for other ABC shows except at the beginning and end of each episode...