Word: dyk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't live up to the urge. He represented a wish, a gesture of hope, but the sober appraisal of the voters is that he is not ready. There is no reason to believe this race will turn yet again." Declares veteran Democratic Strategist Ted Van Dyk, head of a Washington-based think tank: "Hart shattered his image. Suddenly, he was trying to out-promise Mondale. He tore up the snapshot that forms in voters' minds of every candidate. He can paste it back together, but it will never be the same...
Arledge and Vice President Av Westin have been building up ABC's anemic corps of correspondents. Nowhere is the network's new reporting vitality more apparent than in its coverage of the embassy hostage crisis. ABC's Bob Dyk was the only network journalist on the scene in Tehran for four precious days, and ABC has since had more than its share of Iranian scoops. Partly as a result, the network has been nosing out NBC for second place in the evening-news ratings race with increasing regularity, and is even closing in on CBS, the longtime leader (see chart...