Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walked down 398 steps to the ground. It was only when he got to the street and saw the blown-out third floor of the adjacent Golden Gate Bank building that he realized the ferocity of the earthquake. He pulled out his notebook and began reporting this week's cover stories...
...taxes." Congressional leaders wanted to appear to meet deficit-reduction targets without cutting any politically popular spending programs. Budget director Richard Darman came up with a solution that was simple -- too simple. A cut in the capital-gains tax would at least temporarily raise money to cover the revenue shortfall. Many Democrats at first supported the plan that looked like all gain, no pain...
...conservation efforts and improvements in local communities. Zimbabwe, for example, carefully culls its herds without depleting them. Ivory from this culling brings in foreign exchange to Zimbabwe, which guards its elephants against poachers. But the delegates in Lausanne feared that any legal trade would be used as a cover by smugglers, as in the past. Angered by that stance, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and Burundi say they may defy...
...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...
...COVER: In a terrifying dress rehearsal for the Big One, a killer earthquake shakes Northern California...