Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They totaled $3.4 billion in 1982, up from $2.4 billion the year before. That made Wal-Mart the nation's ninth-largest shopkeeper, well behind the likes of Sears (sales: $30 billion) and K mart ($17 billion), but ahead of such old-time retailers as R.H. Macy and Carter Hawley Hale, parent of ultrachic Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman-Marcus...
...Graydon Carter...
...something of a shocker last month when Media Critic Hodding Carter opened an inquiry on public television into the subject by describing Wallace as a central witness who "was not available to our cameras." Meaning that Wallace dishes it out, but can't take it? That set off another miniround of acrimony. Wallace concedes that CBS brass for a long time had shielded him and his colleagues from the press until there was what Wallace calls a "free the slaves" movement at CBS. That gave Wallace a chance to speak for himself, and he was ready to. By that...
...Times's standards of news judgment and fairness, the article was too long and too prominently displayed." This somewhat sententious apology had been ordered up by Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal, who speaks of "my naive astonishment" at the reaction it provoked. People accused him of disliking Hodding Carter ("I don't know him well enough to dislike him") or of bowing to pressure from CBS (says Wallace: "Can you imagine me trying to pressure...
...Times story been too long? Over on the food page, Critic Craig Claiborne often gets as much space to describe the place and circumstances where he discovered a fish sauce. Was there nothing new in Hodding Carter's critique? It added as much, or as little, to public knowledge as had the original Westmoreland broadcast. CBS's charge that the Saigon top brass had misled L.B.J. about enemy troop strength relied largely on evidence from a former CIA analyst, Samuel Adams to whom CBS paid $25,000. But Adams had previously made his case elsewhere and often...