Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week's televised debate among eight Democratic presidential candidates, Ted Koppel smiled into the camera and said, "The moderator will try to have complete control." That drew a laugh, but as usual, he was in earnest. Indeed, during the half of the debate that he moderated, Koppel, cool and cerebral, kept the discussion crisply controlled-and confirmed his reputation as perhaps the best serious interviewer on American...
Koppel remains hot enough and cool enough to propel it. -By William A. Henry...
DIED. Brooks Atkinson, 89, magisterial New York Times drama critic and Pulitzer-prizewinning foreign correspondent; of pneumonia; in Huntsville, Ala. From 1925 to 1960. Atkinson lent a cool, impartial presence to Broadway, interrupting his career to cover World War II and the postwar Soviet Union. After leaving the critic's chair, he wrote nearly a dozen books on the theater, travel and nature...
Indeed, concern for function over form is advisable. The federal gravy train is slowing down. The Reagan Administration, which is cool to mass transit, initially declared a ban on funding for new rail systems and sought to phase out operating assistance by 1985. Pork-barrel-hungry Congressmen, however, objected to both moves. With the passage of the 5?-per-gal. gasoline tax, and its one penny for mass transit, the Administration agreed to lift the ban. But Reagan did persuade Congress to whittle operating subsidies by 21%, and in this fiscal year alone won an overall $400 million...
...parts at risk the whole financial and economic structure of the world. But for the reasons stated I remain confident that before these undesirable trends have had a chance to run their full course, countervailing forces will emerge and restore the balance. The main thing is to stay cool and keep one's sense of humor. Richard Pipes is Baird Professor of History...