Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense, Mike Siegel of Seattle's KING-AM argues that "we don't manipulate, coerce or control. We're just the means through which the public is heard." Siegel, 44, is a relatively well-credentialed member of the talk- show fraternity. A Brooklyn, N.Y., native, he has a Ph.D. in speech communications, and began doing radio talk shows while a college professor in Massachusetts. In 1980 he moved to Miami's WNWS-AM, where his first big on-air campaign helped defeat a proposed rate increase by Southern Bell Telephone...
...gestures toward the Prince, he still refused to allow the Khmer Rouge into the new government before elections; Sihanouk insisted it must be tried. Officially, the U.S. backs a pre-election four-party coalition that would include the Khmer Rouge, though no one wants to see them back in control...
This stand last week cost Bush the support of one of the nation's most respected arms experts. Paul Nitze, a Reagan special adviser on arms control who had just retired from the Government, told the New York Times that the U.S. demand for modernization of Lance missiles, together with the refusal to negotiate on short-range weapons, was "politically impossible for much of Europe." He added, "I cannot think of a German who would agree to that. Many of the allies think it is a crazy proposition." Nitze pointed out that NATO could benefit from successful talks because...
...Business School, Sorrell worked in posts ranging from sports promotion to food retailing before landing a job with the Saatchis in 1977. He spent eight years helping manage that firm's headlong growth, then left to build his own empire. Sorrell and a partner paid $676,000 for a controlling share in WPP in 1985, then used the company as an acquisition vehicle; they have bought 39 marketing and advertising firms so far. His most stunning triumph was the 1987 purchase of the JWT Group, an American conglomerate seven times the size of WPP. The $566 million deal...
...commission of experts and consumers to rank health services in order of importance; the legislature would then decide which to finance. Oregon has already set up committees of doctors, nurses and social workers to & establish priorities in four medical categories covered by Medicaid. Prenatal care, nutrition, immunizations, birth control and abortions rank high on the lists, while organ transplants and cosmetic surgery have been given low priority...