Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buoyed by the midweek backlash in Rather's favor, CBS executives stood by their man. "There is no question that what Dan portrayed on the air was not the sort of gracious Southern gentleman that he is in person," said News President Howard Stringer. "What we got was a journalist in pursuit of a story." CBS Chairman Lawrence Tisch, who was traveling in the Far East on business when the episode occurred, was briefed on it by telephone and, according to Stringer, was "very supportive." CBS staffers, though shaken by the initial barrage of criticism, were also upbeat by week...
...always been particularly zealous in enforcing this proviso, so Murdoch presumably expected the Government to continue to bend the rules in his favor. But the liberal Kennedy (often referred to in Murdoch's Boston Herald as "the Fat Boy") sneaked a clause requiring Murdoch to sell either station or paper into a long congressional appropriations bill. President Reagan seems to have skipped reading the clause when signing the bill into law. In Boston Murdoch chose to sell the station and keep the paper, where he can continue to taunt Teddy. But in New York City he needs the station...
...hockey, you don't usually talk of field possession. Hockey, by design, is a game of swift attack, with one team flying up the ice and the other team returning the favor. But last night, Harvard kept the puck in its own end for an inordinate amount of time. The Army could only dig trenches and watch, helpless, as puck after puck spurted into...
...vanguard of making these proposals and urging these results." As happened during the U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations that led to last December's treaty, the White House is coming out second best on the public-relations front. Like Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Ortega has learned to curry international favor by responding to U.S. demands with the answer least expected by the White House...
...many former activists simply tuned out and dropped out to Vermont and Marin County, where they forgot politics in favor of T.M., hot tubs and whole grain wheat. Others like Tom Hayden, now a California State Assemblyman, chose to moderate some of their radicalism in order to attain a measure of influence within the system. But the Movement as such was a spent force by the end of the decade...