Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Declaring a "national mobilization" on narcotics abuse, the President set forth a program last week that was long on exhortation and good intentions but a bit short on specifics and cash. Indeed, about the only concrete step he announced at a briefing for White House reporters was a call for...
Stepping somberly to the podium in a blue-carpeted Washington briefing room last week, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige confirmed what many businessmen already knew through painful experience. The pace of U.S. economic growth, Baldrige revealed, took a sharp downturn in the second quarter, as American manufacturers continued to be hurt...
The first reports coming out of Trinidad proved potentially more damaging, however, as correspondents focused on the operation's shaky beginnings, including raids on vacant storage sites. Eventually the press corps was offered a field trip to a captured drug laboratory known as El Zorro. When reporters assembled at the...
"WHAT DOES THE Dean of the College do?" might have asked present Dean L. Fred Jewett '57 during one of his briefing sessions with former Dean John Fox '59. "Oh, not much," Fox probably responded, "just go to a bunch of home hockey and basketball games--that way you can...
The carefully controlled 67-minute session at which Shcherbina spoke was the first formal briefing since the accident began. Officials conceded that while the accident occurred at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, some 36 hours passed before the evacuation of the 49,000 residents in the vicinity of Pripyat...