Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed it was. Union Station's architect, Daniel H. Burnham, operated on a simple motto: "Make no little plans." He modeled his beaux-arts palace on Rome's Diocletian Baths and the triumphal Arch of Constantine. When it opened in 1907, luxuriously appointed with mahogany, crystal, brass and marble, its 760-ft.-long, 45-ft.-high concourse was the largest room in the world under a single roof. Niches in the façade held carved avatars of fire, electricity, agriculture and mechanics, each weighing 25 tons...
Despite their difficulties, the New Right PACs remain ready to get out the brass knuckles when the stakes are high. Last week, with the Senate race in California between Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Pete Wilson becoming very close (the latest poll shows them almost even), the Fund for a Conservative Majority announced plans for a $250,000 negative ad campaign against Brown...
...Tough: If we want to cut Republican losses on November 2, we need a reminder of your skill at drawing the line, putting the block on your shoulder, and getting down to brass tacks. A perfect example of your natural ability in this area was the way you laid into the nuclear freeze pussy-footers, labeling them the tools of foreign subversives:" ...Inspired not by the sincere, honest people who want peace, but by some who want the weakening of America and so are manipulating honest people and sincere people." Now that's the ticket, chief...
What should our ambitious TV executives do? For starters, the channel 7 brass could heed the advice of Walter Cronkite, who in his 20 years as anchor of the CBS Evening News came to symbolize integrity in reporting as well as high ratings. In 1976, at a CBS affiliates conference, Cronkite laid out his plans for building a successful local news operation...
DIED. Gordon W. Rule, 75, civilian chief of procurement for the Navy who was a relentless, irreverent Government cost cutter; of cancer; in Arlington, Va. Often battling with military, congressional and corporate brass, he saved uncounted taxpayer dollars from 1963 to 1976, most notably when he carved $100 million from Pratt & Whitney's bill for F-111 jet engines...