Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secret Service and the U.S. Attorney's Office decided that the columnist. Dominic F. Manno, "is not dangerous at this time." Kevin M Tucker, the special agent in charge of the investigation, said yesterday...
Oddly, this case to date has been made more explicitly and effectively by Reagan's journalistic and academic allies than by the Administration itself. Government services to the poor, editorializes the Wall Street Journal, "should be described by their proper name, charity." Writes Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. of the tax cuts: "If someone is paying 70% of his, repeat his, income to the Government, and you propose to reduce taxation from 70% to 63% [which would be the first-year effect of Reagan's tax plan], you are not 'giving' that man something. What...
...place. Burnett did not deny that she dined at the restaurant that night, spoke to Kissinger and had "two, maybe three" glasses of wine. But, she testified, "They portrayed me as drunk." The Enquirer maintained that its information came from a normally reliable source (then freelance tipster, now Enquirer Columnist R. Couri Hay), that staffers had made efforts to verify the tip, and that a retraction ("These events did not occur") was published as soon as the tabloid learned it was wrong. Under California law a retraction severely limits damages against a newspaper involved in a libel action. But Judge...
Normally that kind of talk would prompt indignant editorials defending freedom of the press. But few journalists are eager to defend the methods of a publication that San Francisco Examiner Editor Reg Murphy calls "a disgrace to journalism." Says Syndicated Gossip Columnist Liz Smith of the decision: "It is no precedent against the First Amendment. Responsible publishers, journalists and columnists can go on being fair-minded and work with impunity...
William Safire, columnist, describing budget-slashing OMB Director David Stockman: "A blow-dried Grim Reaper...