Word: coulds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official voice of the Communist Party, Pravda could hardly avoid addressing President Mikhail Gorbachev's ambitious agenda. But the paper did so unevenly, sometimes approving changes and at other times reflecting the views of the Politburo's conservative members. As for investigative journalism that turned up scandals from the past, Afanasyev gradually grew tired of exhumed skeletons. "To dig around in the dirty linen of our history," he told the daily Sovetskaya Rossiya in September, "merely serves to lead people away from the solution of our contemporary problems...
...turned in the most impressive performance. With 14 camera crews, the Goodyear blimp, and savvy sports commentator Al Michaels on hand at Candlestick Park to cover the World Series, its sports division alone could probably have beaten the other networks' news divisions, as it did after the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Anchoring from Washington, Ted Koppel again proved that he is unsurpassed in the art of extracting facts from chaos. While CBS's Dan Rather was still stressing the "unconfirmed" nature of reports about the collapse of the Bay Bridge, ABC (along with the ever enterprising...
...coping in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. The Pacific Gas & Electric Co. quickly shut off power in San Francisco to minimize chances that a spark might ignite gas leaking from ruptured lines. As a result, only seven buildings were lost to fire. Frightened residents in dozens of towns could find detailed instructions on household safety measures in their telephone books...
...amazing variety," says Herrmann. "It is not just the gold, but the different colors and the use of polychromatic stones." Agrees Curtis of the British Museum: "It revolutionizes the idea we have of the Assyrian court. No one knew they ^ possessed this kind of wealth or that the craftsmanship could be so fine...
Reverberating from the San Andreas fault, the tremor collapses roadways, causes more than 100 fatalities, levels homes from Santa Cruz to San Francisco and forces suspension of the World Series. The destruction would have been worse if the region had not been prepared. But nothing could prepare survivors for the emotional aftershock of the disaster...