Word: dan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene on the floor of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago was chaotic, and Dan Rather, naturally, was in the middle of it. When CBS cameras located their roving floor reporter, he was involved in a shoving match with security guards. "Take your hands off me unless you plan to arrest me!" Rather shouted just before disappearing behind a mass of bodies. He popped back up seconds later, trying, between gasps, to explain the incident to Anchorman Walter Cronkite. "I'm sorry to be out of breath," said Rather, "but somebody belted me in the stomach during that...
Even then, Dan Rather had a nose for trouble. But it was the sort of trouble that was good for the career of an ambitious young TV reporter climbing steadily up the network ladder. Rather, at 56, is now at the very top of that ladder, anchorman for the CBS Evening News and possibly the most powerful TV journalist in America. But his emotional, frequently combative style has also made him the most controversial. Rather's heated encounter with George Bush last week was just the latest in a barrage of storms, big and small, that seem to engulf...
...nemesis, Rather is the very embodiment of what they perceive as the media's liberal bias. When Senator Jesse Helms, the right-wing Republican from North Carolina, launched a campaign in 1985 to take over CBS, he urged supporters with pointed glee to buy up CBS stock and "become Dan Rather's boss." Many TV news traditionalists are no fonder of Rather: he is too high-pitched, too image conscious, too well paid...
...trying to demonstrate its ability to participate in and even to influence the events in the [occupied] territories," Lt. Gen. Dan Shomron, armed forces chief of staff, said on Israel Radio. "The influence is actually very small. And they try to act in the way that they know: against civilians...
...When we had the loss at Harvard, we sat down with the team and tried to come to grips with what had been happening," Yale Assistant Coach Dan Poliziani said. "Somehow it had to be stopped. It was like a cancer...