Word: follow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lucky?" an old journalistic rival asked Stanley Cloud, TIME's deputy Washington bureau chief. "Reporters usually follow the news. You've worked it out so that the news follows you." Indeed, no sooner had Cloud taken on the job in June than the biggest stories of the year rushed out to welcome him, including the Iran-contra hearings and the stock-market crash. With Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, Cloud was responsible for deploying 17 correspondents to cover those events, as well as the unfolding 1988 presidential sweepstakes...
...cease-fire." Ortega also shot down press reports that, come Nov. 5, he would be in Moscow to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Though Ortega plans to visit the Soviet Union early this week, he said he would return to Managua in time to "follow closely the implementation of the accords...
...Moscow's Arbat pedestrian mall, evening strollers cluster around a young guitarist. The music has stopped, and the passersby follow a heated argument between a dowdy middle-aged woman and a policeman. Clearly on the defensive, the officer insists that he is not forbidding the street musician to play but only questioning why he is cadging coins. "Times have changed," the angry music fan counters. "The police should not be sticking their noses into matters that don't concern them." The Moscow cop walks away grumbling, "Right now, anything goes...
Moscow has been disinclined so far to follow Beijing's lead in returning the land to the peasants. Gorbachev has proposed a modified version of the Chinese plan that would lease marginal land from state and collective farm holdings to enterprising homesteaders and organize farm workers into family brigades. In his speech to the June plenum of the Central Committee, he praised such contract teams, citing a family in the Brest region of Belorussia that managed to increase milk yields per cow from 2,917 kilograms to 5,580 kilograms in only two years. But so far the Kremlin cannot...
...Summon to Washington the leaders of labor, industry, banking, agriculture, construction and transportation to get their recommendations and help. Meet the press within 48 hours, then promise a more "intimate" relationship with the media. Follow up with press conferences every few days...