Word: co
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hopkins, 44, also garnered some biting written evaluations from partners who branded her "macho," foulmouthed and harsh to co-workers. One said she needed to take a "course at charm school." Her candidacy was put on hold for a year. Afterward, a partner who was one of her biggest supporters advised her that she might improve her chances if she learned to walk, talk and dress "more femininely . . . wear makeup, have her hair styled and wear jewelry...
...hearing on defense issues, member Caspar Weinberger was up to his old game, calling for increased spending. Democratic Co-Chairman Robert Strauss took him to task for proposing new outlays without providing fresh income. Strauss reminded the former Defense Secretary that members had sworn an "oath to deal with the deficit." Weinberger retorted that there was nothing "so sacred" about Social Security that should prevent it from being tapped for defense. An outraged AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland vowed to oppose any such moves, with street protests if necessary. The divisions are likely to worsen after the presidential election, since...
...this year's campaign draws to a close, many reporters and news executives find themselves in agreement. "Television news has been co-opted by the imagemakers and the media managers," says former network correspondent Marvin Kalb, director of Harvard's Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "The manipulators learned that by controlling the pictures you end up controlling the content...
Some ABC executives may regret that they are telling this one. In selling ABC the rights to his 1,042-page tome, author Wouk (who also co-wrote the teleplay) demanded stringent restrictions on advertising. No commercials for personal-care products such as laxatives and foot powder. No commercial breaks longer than two minutes. Perhaps most galling to the network, no promotional spots for other ABC shows except at the beginning and end of each episode...
...Mail's co-editor, Anton Harber, called the suspension an act of "narrow-mindedness and intolerance." The editors pledged to keep the staff busy by bringing out special issues under other titles, on such topics as human rights and censorship. While the Mail will lose money, the paper is expected to survive the closing...