Word: columnist
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Board Member Samuel Brittan, economics columnist for London's Financial Times, predicted that growth will rise from 3% in 1986 to 3.5% this year and push the unemployment rate down slightly, from 11.4% to 10.7%. Brittan hopes the pound will stabilize at more or less its current level. Further substantial declines in the currency, he said, could begin to put pressure on the British inflation rate by making imports more expensive...
This set-up is much to the chagrin of his wife Doris (Sally Kish), a babbling advice columnist who has cancelled her travel plans so she can get some last-minute coverage by a shrewish reporter (Jen Harris). Of course, as in all good farces, it turns out that she and everyone else in the play, including an acne-afflicted dermatologist (Andrew Osborne) and an abandoned son bearing gifts (Chris Reed), are secretly related...
...will no longer be required as of 12/20/86 -- Jimmy Breslin." So read the three-line advertisement on the front page of the New York Times last week. Only eight weeks after the premiere of his critically acclaimed late-night talk show, Jimmy Breslin's People, the feisty Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist became, as he put it, "the first person in America to fire a network." Breslin had been miffed that abc aired his show at odd hours, as late as 2 a.m. in some markets, including his hometown of New York City. abc responded to Breslin's snub by declaring...
This makes Regan a lightning rod for criticism of the Administration when problems erupt. Resting his case on Iran, the Daniloff deal and Reagan's murky conduct at the Iceland summit, conservative Columnist George Will wrote last week: "The aides in close contact with President Reagan today are the least distinguished such group to serve any President in the postwar period." Regan dismisses such sweeping criticisms. But he does bristle at unfavorable comparisons between his White House (and he often sounds as if he believes it is "his" White House) and that managed by his predecessor, James Baker. Regan firmly...
Most of the Washington press corps has long since grown resigned, fatalistic or cautious about its situation. But not Boston-based New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, who began an angry column: "Ronald Reagan has never been more breathtaking as a politician than in the weeks since Reykjavik. He has pictured failure as success, black as white, incompetence as standing up to the Russians. And according to the polls, Americans love the performance...