Word: drifting
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...down to make way for Dan Rather. Cronkite's Evening News had consistently attracted the most viewers for 14 years, with NBC a strong second, ABC a distant third. Suddenly, however, all bets were off. While a visibly uneasy Rather adjusted to his new role, viewers began to drift to other channels. The major gainer: ABC News, which, since Roone Arledge took over as president in 1977, has fashioned a slick, fast-paced style of reporting that bristles with the latest video electronics. With Anchor Peter Jennings reporting in by satellite every night from somewhere overseas, explains World News...
About one-third of Arco's patrons currently pay for their purchases by means of Arco cards, and company officials concede that some people could drift off to other gasoline brands once their charge cards are no longer accepted. The company, though, thinks that drivers will keep pulling into its stations because Arco will be passing on its administrative savings to customers. The company says that it will be able to slash gasoline prices by as much as 30 per gal. in the coming weeks as a result of abandoning credit cards. If Arco's sales spurt...
...effort and encomiums is mixed. The concentration-camp survivor has brought hundreds of Nazis and collaborators to court, but they are only a small percentage of the guilty. Legal procedures are slow; indifference and ignorance have become the order of the day. To reverse this historic drift, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has produced Genocide, a feature-length tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. It too yields mixed results. The film's strength is its sound track, spoken by two unlikely underplayers. For this occasion, Orson Welles abandons his oleaginous bass for a simple voice of authority, recording names...
Rough talk and confrontational tactics did not come naturally to Ehrlichman. But every presidential assistant is tempted to purchase greater influence by humoring a President's moods. Ehrlichman overcompensated. To the mounting protest demonstrations, the leaks and the drift of the dissenters into extralegal activity, Ehrlichman responded with a zeal that was sometimes excessive...
...great quantities of iron and coal, including perhaps the world's largest coal field, running more than 1,500 miles along the Transantarctic Mountains. There are strong indications of other treasures as well. More than 200 million years ago, before the world's continents began their slow drift apart, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa, India and Australia as part of a great landmass that scientists call Pangaea (Greek for whole earth). In strata similar to those of its long-separated continental cousins, Antarctica, like the tip of South America and southeastern Australia, may possess uranium...