Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nightline, which since last April has been the only hourlong news show on any commercial network, will be cut back to half an hour on Feb. 8, coincidentally Koppel's 44th birthday. At the hour length, ratings sagged. Says Koppel: "We were on a downward spiral." Often the show gave a topic too much time, or jumbled together unrelated segments, some of them less than urgently newsworthy. Admits Executive Producer William Lord: "By thinking larger, we diluted the focus of the show." The biggest roadblocks, however, were local ABC affiliates. When the show expanded, twelve stations dropped it outright...
That was the rosy report from the members of TIME'S Pacific Board of Economists during a meeting in Singapore. The economists predicted that virtually all the major Pacific countries will enjoy 1984 growth rates in the 4% to 8% range. Unemployment should edge downward in many nations, and no new outbreak of inflation is in sight...
Preliminary estimates show that for the fourth connective year, applications to the Harvard Medical School declined but the dip was smaller then in previous years and the downward trend appears to be leveling off, Harvard officials said yesterday...
According to Olivas, the five khaki-uniformed guards who met Aquino aboard China Airlines Flight 811 were unarmed. As Aquino stepped off the plane, escorted by the guards, a single fatal bullet entered the nape of his neck and passed in a downward path through his chin. Seconds later, soldiers gunned down Rolando Galman, who, Olivas contended, had "suddenly darted toward [Aquino] and shot him from behind...
...later reported that Galman was 5 ft. 9 in., or ¼ in. taller than Aquino. Galman's height is a crucial clue in determining whether he was tall enough to walk behind Aquino, as the government claims, and fire into his head a bullet that would take a downward path...