Word: byword
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Munich Psychologist Georg Sieber, a well-known security consultant in Europe, is not much impressed by gadgetry or bodyguards. Among his tips for worried businessmen: "planned irregularity" should be the byword; avoid golf and activities that attract big gatherings, like horse races; carry a small transmitter for SOS messages in emergencies. In the U.S. the most basic advice that security firms give to potential targets in industry is to keep a low profile: do not talk to the press or become a public figure, get out of the phone book, no names on company parking spots and no logos...
...three networks scrambled to report the story, caution was the byword. No one wanted to repeat the gross reporting errors that were made the day President Reagan was attacked, most egregiously the reports that Press Secretary James Brady had died. Says ABC World News Tonight Executive Producer Jeff Gralnick: "All of us learned a lesson with James Brady." The networks also had the problem of reporting live on a story that was unfolding in Rome while most of their foreign crews were concentrated in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Early medical bulletins on the Pontiff swung wildly between Vatican...
...taste. In recent years, artists' reputations once thought to be buried for ever have been summoned to their resurrection by art-historical revisionism and the demands of the art market. Brandish ing their wormy palettes, these venerable shades mock the belief in linear progress that was once a byword of modernism. If anyone in 1960 had dared suggest that dozens of moldering eminences from the salons and academies of preimpressionist France, forgotten men like Jean-Pierre Alexandre Antigna, Frangois Bonvin, Joseph Bail or Alphonse Legros, would some day be in the museums again and become the subject of excited...
SNCC'S ANALYSIS of American society should have warned it of one more danger with increasing militance. Our government places sharp limits on dissent; when a person passes those limits without the support of huge numbers, he is doomed. From the moment that Black Power became the SNCC byword, phones were tapped, arrests were made, leaders shot. As one FBI memorandum about the organization concluded, "You are urged to take an enthusiastic and imaginative approach to this new counterintelligence endeavor and the Bureau will be pleased to entertain any suggestions or techniques you may recommend." Obviously, fear of repression should...
...Governor and as candidate, Reagan had a reputation for disdain of detail. During the transition period, his "detachment" became a byword on both coasts. Now, preoccupied with the major speech on fiscal policy he will give in a few days, he raises a question about simplifying a point in his proposed tax-reduction plans. "I'm just thinking about the guy doing his return," Reagan explains. Meese says that the new tax rate tables will deal with the problem. Something else is rankling Reagan. His instinct is to cut the capital gains levy sooner rather than later. Says...