Word: brasses
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Partly as a result, a roster of contenders have deflected or flat-out declined overtures. According to present and former NBC top brass, they include: the network's own anchor Tom Brokaw, and its Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press host Tim Russert; ABC News president Roone Arledge, his executive vice president Paul Friedman and Nightline anchor Ted Koppel; CNN president Tom Johnson and executive vice president Ed Turner; and PBS documentarian Bill Moyers. There may be others. Although the search has been under way for at least a month -- since before Michael Gartner resigned -- somewhat less glittery prospects...
...spectacle you see now, and for 60 hours on television, until the New Orleans finals on April 5, has been dubbed "March Madness" by the network hucksters, and it is the grandest play-off of any -- 112 college teams (64 men's, 48 women's) joyfully colliding, with their brass bands and cheerleaders and painted crazies in tow, in cities from Orlando, Florida, to Salt Lake City, Utah. March Madness is one of the nation's three greatest athletic events (the other two are the World Series and the Super Bowl), but it is only part of an underlying phenomenon...
Last week the top military brass flatly told Yeltsin they wanted order and demanded resolute action from him to end his power struggle with the Congress. But there is strong conservative sentiment in military ranks. Even if the top generals try to stay out of politics, many lower officers who are dismayed by the miserable living conditions of army units withdrawn from Eastern Europe and horrified by the economic and political chaos may feel otherwise. According to former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin, recent army surveys show that two-thirds or more of the officers oppose the current reforms...
That probably only postpones the big fight. Congressional Democrats may well turn aside a Republican effort expected this week to write the ban on gay soldiers and sailors into law. While a permanent order is being drawn up, though, the White House faces intense opposition from Pentagon brass, who deeply fear disrupting the closely knit culture of the armed services, and constituents who have been deluging Congress with mail and phone calls. The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold extensive hearings; chairman Sam Nunn helped negotiate the interim compromise but announced that he still favors keeping the ban. On Thursday...
...speech in Boston in October 1991. But a close look at how Clinton and his team tried in recent weeks to defuse the issue shows that the Administration has much to learn about the Washington political game. The Clinton team was simply unprepared to handle the powerful legislators, military brass and internal leakers who turned the gays-in-the-military debate into a disaster...