Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There seems to have been, as well, an attempt to cover up the caper. The theft occurred in April, but the bereft Bunny keepers said nothing publicly until two weeks ago, when Playboy offered a Hefty $50,000 reward for the wayward videos' safe return...
...subcommittee has not discovered the widespread bribes, kickbacks and blackmail that led to an overhaul of the IRS in the 1950s, its yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of disturbing misconduct: several instances of alleged wrongdoing by high-level IRS officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders...
...added a horoscope page and a rundown of the week's soap-opera plots -- two low-rent staples of daily newspapers. Its late-breaking news pages, once a source of knowing industry tidbits, have become splashier and more trivial ("Rating the Oscar Parties: The Best and the Worst"). Cover stories, meanwhile, have kept both eyes on the newsstand: a January story about rock music on TV, for example, had no timely reason for being except to get Elvis Presley's face on the cover...
...that TV Guide is in any danger of losing its standing as the nation's premier TV magazine. (Its last serious competitor, Time Inc.'s TV-CABLE WEEK, expired after six months of publication in 1983.) Officials contend that the circulation drop can be explained by an increase in cover price (from 60 cents to 75 cents) and a pruning of some expensive-to-acquire subscribers. Advertising revenue, they add, was affected by last year's TV writers' strike (which delayed the networks' fall promotions) and by the elimination of a long-standing practice in which TV Guide traded...
...COVER: Noriega brazenly steals an election, mugging its winners and provoking a quick U.S. reaction...