Word: ed
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Troubles have been unending. After much maneuvering to get NBC to move its headquarters into what Trump originally called Television City, the network decided to stay in Rockefeller Center. Mayor Ed Koch rejected Trump's demands for a 20-year tax abatement, mocking the builder as "piggy, piggy, piggy." Trump in turn called Koch "incompetent" and "a moron," and threatens to help anyone who can unseat him in next fall's election. Citizens' groups on the West Side mounted major opposition, charging that the project would cast a deep shadow over a large area...
...press is not entirely to blame: politicians are overusing the phrases too. Asked how his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev was going during last month's minisummit, President Reagan replied, "Read our smiles," a line that turned up on the next day's front pages. New York City Mayor Ed Koch, who faces a tough re-election fight, recently promised reporters -- you guessed it -- a "kinder, gentler Ed Koch." But just in case the President- elect is growing tired of his own cliches, help is on the way: Peggy Noonan, the writer who penned his New Orleans speech, is currently honing...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...
Huhne said the club will bring "professionals and experts" to the April 15 conference at the Cambridge Marriott Hotel, which accommodates up to 250 people. In addition, Ed Rippey '89 said investor T. Boone Pickens had expresed "interest" in speaking at the conference...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...