Word: caving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council on National Issues, cheerfully faced up to 14-hour days that began with breakfast meetings and ended with after-dinner speeches. With them were TIME editors, correspondents and company officers, led by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Board Chairman Ralph Davidson and TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave. The topics ranged from acid rain to Star Wars, but it was the U.S. budget deficit and its effect on interest rates and the dollar that dominated the discussions. Most Administration officials and Congressmen agreed with Senator Dole, who described his effort to forge a bipartisan coalition in favor...
...Muhm's grandfather came from Germany after the Civil War and lived in a cave in Hancock County, Iowa, and built himself a farm. Muhm's father farmed and his brother does today. In the century they saw all the vicissitudes the "land of excesses" could throw at them and they survived. "The difference now," says Muhm, who is farm editor of the Des Moines Register, "is that land values have dropped so much." Always before land held its value relative to the rest of the economy. Farmers wanted more. Now land is a burden that is destroying them...
...went through this long, hard fight because we felt a principle was at stake," said TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave outside the courthouse. "The principle was, if you think your story is right, then you better defend it. We are pleased with the verdict." Sharon, on the other hand, insisted that he had been vindicated in his $50 million libel suit against TIME. "I came here to prove that TIME magazine lied," he said. "We managed to prove there was a clear defamation. We came over here to prove that they have done it with negligence and with carelessness. Altogether...
...This was a meticulous jury, which examined the evidence that it had," said TIME's Cave. "Our problem is that we don't think they would have come to these conclusions if testimony that should have been before them had been before them. Nevertheless, we regret we gave the jury any reason to find TIME negligent or careless. There was without question one error in the story...
...stressed that the Israeli government had denied the magazine access to key witnesses, documents and testimony that were ; deemed central to its defense. "It would have taken the jury only ten minutes if I could have presented all the relevant information," said Thomas Barr, chief counsel for Time Inc. Cave said he believed that the full story of Sharon's meetings with Phalangists before the massacre would eventually be disclosed...