Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criticism has one failing, it may in fact be that overfondness for the jugular. Yet even the most contentious critics, like Gary Deeb, 33, of the Chicago Tribune, are closer than their predecessors to the journalistic ideal of accuracy and informed judgment. Whether they have any real impact on television is less certain, but none of them doubt the seriousness of their subject. "It's our principal medium," says Shales. "Television is more important than theater or film. It's a shared experience unlike anything people have ever known...
...determination to protect SALT. The Peking leadership sees SALT as a trap into which the Soviets have lured the U.S. The principal sponsor of the 1974 amendment linking trade with emigration was Henry Jackson, who also happens to be both the leading opponent of SALT and proponent of closer ties with China. Thus the Administration faces the disagreeable possibility that Congress, skillfully lobbied by the Chinese, may impose its own tilt toward China, leaving the Soviet Union as a 'least-favored-nation...
...considerable step of agreeing to adopt a joint political program. They rejected the Camp David plan for creating an autonomous "entity" on the West Bank and Gaza, and they insisted that the P.L.O. and not King Hussein should represent the Palestinians. Hussein accepted both these points, bringing himself into closer alignment with Syria than ever before...
...children's social and school life. Christine Rosenthal, a Brandeis University sociologist who studied 127 joint-and sole-custody fathers, was impressed by how well the arrangements worked among those who remarried. And a New York study of 40 divorced men found that joint-custody fathers were happier, closer to their children and had fewer problems with ex-wives than did noncustodial fathers. Says the author of the study, Psychiatric Social Worker Judith Brown Greif: "The issue of how disruptive it must be for children to have two homes rather than one seems to be a concern more...
STAUBACH: "You have a camera and it's focused downfield. All the other is a blur-the hands, the people, the movement-but your point of focus is beyond them. If you stare at the closer stuff so that you actually see a guy's arm or hand, then you're in trouble. There's an antenna, a sixth sense, inside you that directs the ball past the guy's hands...