Word: editorialists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since the highly publicized 1972 chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Reykjavik has Iceland (pop. 240,000) been the focus of such intense superpower attention. The summit, proudly wrote an editorialist in Morgunbladid, the island's largest daily newspaper, "puts Iceland in the spotlight as firmly as it has ever been...
...cold as a beer-swilling mob is not only inaccurate reporting, but shows plainly that, for Mr. Howe, bias is more important than evidence. Mr. Howe, to my knowledge, was not at the scene of the Encampment and neither was his presence noted the next morning. Even an editorialist should get his facts straight...
...wants to get back on the road to detente have been numerous this week. Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper which usually devotes much space to haranguing Washington, ran several front page editorials calling for "normal, and better yet, friendly" relations with the United States. Such improved relations, wrote one editorialist, "would meet the interests of both peoples and universal peace." Speeches by new Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov and Prime Minister Nikolai A. Tikhonov expressed thoughts similar to those put forth in Pravda...
...yelling "Eureka" and a prim and patrician Isaac Newton cursing the apple that hit him on the head is the fable of three men in business suits having dinner at a posh Washington restaurant. Arthur B. Laffer, an upstart economics professor from California, Louis Lehrman, and Wall Street Journal editorialist Jude Wanniski were finishing their drinks, as the story goes, when conversation shifted to one of their favorite topics, conservative economics. Wanniski (or was that Lehrman?), asked if it was possible for the federal government to cut taxes without losing money, and Laffer answered affirmatively. Taking...
William F. Buckley Jr., conservative editorialist, denying rumors that he will succeed his liberal-leaning friend Kingman Brewster Jr., former Yale president, as U.S. Ambassador to Britain: "If it be my role to clean up after Kingman Brewster, I shall first have to serve as president of Yale...