Word: duel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned-on TV sets-or some 75 million Americans. Reagan spent $75,000 for an opening-night 60-sec. spot. Carter appeared twice later in the week, spending $112,500 on one 60-sec. and one 30-sec. pitch. He may have come out ahead in this scheduling duel since, unlike those of many serial shows, the Shōgun audience grew in later episodes...
...been billed as Das Duell (The Duel), and it was expected that the West German election campaign pitting Chancellor Helmut Schmidt against Conservative Challenger Franz Josef Strauss would be a stimulating confrontation of intellects and ideologies. Instead, halfway to the Oct. 5 election, it has been a disappointment, practically devoid of serious debate on the issues and degenerating easily into mudslinging and character assassination. The battle seems to be all over but the invective: Schmidt's coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats is a heavy favorite to defeat the Christian Democrats and their sister party, Strauss...
...status as a major candidate, and the continuing controversy helped keep him in the news. Conferring credibility is television's greatest power: "Televiso, ergo sum-I am televised, therefore I am," as Columnist Russell Baker puts it. CBS has already committed itself to covering the Anderson-Reagan duel live; NBC and ABC were still making up their minds at week...
...mind to preclude further debates." But Powell said last week: "There's a growing feeling around here that there may never be a one-on-one debate." The White House believes that Reagan, despite his claims to the contrary, does not want to duel the President. If there is no debate between Carter and Reagan this year, the voters will be deprived of the opportunity of sizing up the two men, head to head, as they project their personalities and discuss their programs...
Hostilities continued for three more days as Israel and P.L.O. forces engaged in a prolonged artillery-vs. -aircraft duel. From its southern Lebanon positions, the P.L.O. fired a series of its Soviet-made Katyusha rockets onto an Israeli settlement in the Galilee panhandle. In response, Israeli planes launched another series of bombing runs against P.L.O. bases in Lebanon...