Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the game--a 4-2 UMD victory--each member of the press was briefly detained by the crowd as he or she left the press box for an identity check...
...part, being without an identity that I could subject to public scrutiny, I hid. Like a yellow-bellied piece of preppy slime, I stayed in the safety of the press box, until my would-be welcoming committee was escorted out of the arena by decorum-minded ushers...
What lies ahead for ABC in its new marriage? Known for its careful cost cutting (see box), Capital Cities will doubtless attempt to trim fat from ABC. It will look with disdain, for example, on the network's habit of sending several executives, when one would be sufficient, on expensive business trips. Money-losing departments like network news might be vulnerable, although Capital Cities generally leaves high-quality journalistic operations alone. Still, as one concerned ABC middle manager fretted, "A lot of people are walking around worried." A producer for ABC News's 20/20 program said, "Capital Cities...
...largest strategic missile in the U.S. arsenal, the MX has sparked one controversy after another over four Administrations (see box). The latest rescue effort waged in its behalf stems from a compromise reached last year with a group of House Democrats led by Les Aspin, the new (since January) chairman of the Armed Services Committee. At the time, Congress voted to set aside the $1.5 billion for production of 21 missiles but to hold the money in escrow for a year and then reconsider the project. One reason: Moscow was then boycotting arms talks with Washington, and the Administration argued...
...Airport to the final handshake that Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney exchanged on the gray stone battlements of the historic Citadel, the meeting was as carefully choreographed as a ballet. Indeed, the two leaders reveled in the spotlight when they and their wives left their flower-bedecked box at Quebec City's Grand Theater during a Sunday evening gala and joined entertainers in a rousing chorus of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...