Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corporate political game. In his campaign for the presidency, Stringer won the support of such key CBS News figures as Dan Rather, Bill Moyers and 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt. He also sought the advice of two ex-CBS News presidents, Richard Salant and William Leonard, and Burton Benjamin, a longtime CBS News executive who retired last year. Benjamin, 69, had been offered the job of interim president but declined...
...even by the standards of conservative Arizona, Evan Mecham had previously appeared four times on the ballot for Governor, so often that he became known as the "Harold Stassen of Arizona." Thus he was not taken all that seriously by the Republican establishment. This time around, everyone assumed that Burton Barr, the G.O.P. leader of the house who had the personal backing of Ronald Reagan, would easily capture the nomination and probably go on to win the governorship that Democrat Bruce Babbitt is vacating...
...also had labor troubles last week. Some 3,600 workers were on strike at the company's Indiana Harbor Works in East Chicago, Ind., because LTV, as part of its bankruptcy strategy, had abruptly canceled benefits for 66,000 retired workers. On Thursday, Federal Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland ordered the company to pay the benefits for six more months. That ruling ended the six-day walkout and permitted LTV to reap a short-term bonus in extra orders from USX clients...
...screen. Their style of show eventually went out of fashion. Their songs never did: Thank Heaven for Little Girls, If Ever I Would Leave You, They Call the Wind Maria, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face. After Loewe retired in 1960, Lerner collaborated with composers including Burton Lane, Andre Previn, Leonard Bernstein and Charles Strouse but never matched his achievements with Loewe...
President Corazon Aquino receives visitors in the second-floor bedroom of a guesthouse at Malacaang Palace. Last week, when the new leader welcomed TIME's Hong Kong bureau chief Sandra Burton, a close observer of Aquino's career since their first meeting more than two years ago, the President was in her office with her daughter and personal secretary nearby. Discussing her first twelve weeks in power, Aquino was as animated and forthright as ever. Excerpts from their talk...