Word: beckers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ROSS BECKER SAYS HE WAS fed up with tabloid television when he left his job as a local TV anchorman in Los Angeles last year and moved to Kentucky, where he now owns an FM radio station. But that didn't stop him from becoming a featured player in the most fervently followed tabloid story of the decade. A week before Christmas, he got a call from an acquaintance, infomercial producer Tony Hoffman, who asked whether Becker would like to conduct the first extended interview with O.J. Simpson since his acquittal on murder charges last October...
Three days later, Becker was back in Los Angeles, preparing for the interview coveted by practically every journalist in America. Not that the resulting 90-minute session can be justly described as journalism. The taping was orchestrated by Simpson as a way of making money and packaged (with a Simpson-conducted evidence tour of his Brentwood estate) as a $29.95 videocassette, to be sold via 800-number mail order and released...
...interchange that they [the speakers] are having is incredible," said Herb A. Becker, Director of the Office of Tribal Justice, and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe...
...Becker said the purpose behind the conference was "to find out from tribes how we can best assist them in their judicial systems and to learn something from them...
...labor movement is also a political orphan. Says George Becker, president of the United Steel Workers: "We haven't been able to get the kind of legislation we need to protect working people. We are the Democratic Party, and yet, going back as far as the '70s, we've been unable to get legislation that protects working people's standard of living. We're in a race to the bottom, and that has got to change...