Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young White House aide in the Cabinet Room there was an echo from the past in that message. During his campaign and the transition, Ronald Reagan had constantly reminded his troops of the difficulty of nudging the Federal Government and its entrenched bureaucracy onto a new course. The important fact is that the President has not yet yielded in conviction or purpose, two ingredients of his early success. But now he seeks something more...
...aimed at luring young, up-scale readers away from National Geographic (circ. 10 million). Instead, Geo's diffuse, often pretentious photojournalistic essays drove many readers away; circulation reached only 256,000, short of the planned 300,000. A promotion campaign dubbing it The Earth Diary seemed a futile echo of the '60s. Last week, after losing about $30 million-plus three publishers and three managing editors-Gruner & Jahr sold their ad-starved, troubled magazine to Knapp Communications (Architectural Digest, Bon Appetit). In exchange, Gruner & Jahr promised to help test-market Knapp's other magazines in Europe. Predicts...
...Federal Aviation Administration continues to echo Reagan's tough position that this is no longer a strike but a challenge to the law of the land. The agency maintains that the strike is officially over and that the workers will never be able to return to their jobs. PATCO gamely insists that its mem bers will eventually be back in their towers. Meanwhile, the FAA is continuing its efforts to take away PATCO's rights to bargain for workers with the Government. The Federal Labor Relations Authority is expected to rule on the issue this week...
...other complaints about how Harvard has changed seem to echo his fears about the modernization of Ireland, the other isolated and traditional place he has known. "Students will ask me with a smirk if there was truly a time when there were parietal rules--when you couldn't have a young woman in your room with the door closed, when you had to sign in. They ask why people ever put up with that sort of thing. But in those days the gates to the Houses were always wide open, and there was no fear of being mugged. I think...
...when astronomers talk about objects as strange and remote as quasars, about cosmic enigmas like black holes and the faint radio noises that may be an echo of the creation, an ordinary planet, even the second largest in the sun's family, hardly seems likely to awe or surprise. Yet, remarkably, Saturn still has that power, as the Voyager 1 spacecraft so dramatically showed last November. Swooping within 78,000 miles of the luminous ringed sphere, the little robot sent back a collection of full-color images as dazzling as any ever received from deep space...