Word: ed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have began one of the dozen times that Hirtle tried to talk to on-duty employees during his off-hours and was escort- ed off the premises by managers. When he complained, he was suspended, and human resources rushed to back up his bosses. He "got satisfaction," he says, only after he took his complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, which rescinded the suspension...
...being concerned more about gays in the military, abortion-rights activists, and loading up his Cabinet with millionaire lawyers than with Middle America. "The President should remind himself," says presidential scholar Stephen Hess, "that the people who elected him get their hair cut, not styled, by barbers named Ed, not Cristophe, and they pay in cash, not personal-services contracts." The speed of passage of the haircut from Beltway to Burbank monologue set a new indoor record...
...apparently in a fret about the competition. He may be worried that Andrew Lack, the smart new NBC News president who came from CBS (where he was Chung's executive producer), will work some sudden magic at NBC. Then there's the chance CBS may lose Ed Bradley, who is being offered millions to defect...
According to sources at CBS, the Evening News anchor chair was all but offered to Ed Bradley recently, and he all but refused. That's an extraordinary benchmark of the decline in stature of the evening news shows. From the season before Cronkite left through the season after, the network- news-watching majority withered abruptly, 77% to 68% in just two years, and not because of CNN, which barely existed. Instead, it was simply the moment the nation, released by Cronkite's passing and Reagan's ignorance-is-bliss- ism, started abandoning the nightly-news ritual. Today...
...allow for more lenient treatment. Much of the city seems willing to forgive the misadventure. New Yorkers were astonished -- and, in a way, flattered -- that anyone could be obsessed with their much maligned subways. Movie-of-the-week packagers are lining up for Keno's signature. Said ex-Mayor Ed Koch: "If I were the judge, I'd explain to him that he did place people in danger. Then I would ask the ((Transit Authority)) to give him an internship." That would be a dream come true for Keno Thomas. But such an ending is up to the lawyers...