Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gennady I. Gerasimov, the Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, was asked at a news briefing whether there was a U.S.-Soviet compromise on Afghan aid.
Anderson pickles -- and misses. His bomb "splashes" six yards left. In war, anything within ten yards would have won the day, but this is a contest. Muttering angrily, he rockets up toward the mountains to get in line again, wondering who missed, man or machine. "Hey, lead," he barks to...
Composition Women: 82 percent Men: 18 percent Pro-union: 61 percent Anti-union: 19 percent Undecided: 20 percent Have looked at the University's briefing booklet: 35 percent Said Harvard should not be allowed to stage an anti-union campaign: 38 percent Mentioned Yale University's support staff union: 100...
January 1988: Administrators begin to heighten the University's efforts against the union by distributing a union briefing book to supervisors. Administrators also hold closed meetings to urge support for the University's position.
Meet the latest innovation in network political coverage: the off-air reporter-producer and all-around campaign shadow. With no front runners and no bottomless buckets of money, the networks decided at the outset against deploying a correspondent and camera crew with each of the 13 candidates. But ABC and...