Word: formation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During that decisive confrontation, King, taking advantage of the awkward format, ignored questions and his opponents remarks and used the opportunity to contrast himself' with the incumbent not only in substance but in style. He repeatedly ran through his checklist of issues, stating his support for capital punishment, a higher drinking age, limitations on government growth and his opposition to state funding for abortion. He did so, like a broken record, not only in his opening statement, but in response to practically every question asked, including those dealing with Kennedy's potential presidential candidacy. Ackerman's political leanings, and prison...
...seemingly mundane, but potentially important contrast, lies in the ground rules. Last time, a reporter addressed a question to one candidate, and the others responded in turn. This loose format, made more ridiculous by queries tailored to only one candidate, favored the contestant who could avoid the questions rather than answer them. This time around, reporters will question one candidate at a time, with no response from the others. The section set aside for candidates to question each other should also better establish a contrast...
...next date marked on the political calendar is April 20, when the candidates will square off for the first time in a televised debate arranged after weeks of squabbling over format and content...
...Post staffer. Isaacs' "newsroom democracy" relied on committees of editorial employees to examine everything from working conditions to the basic personality of the paper. With nudging from Isaacs, the committees then decided that the Star should drop its emphasis on hard news in favor of a magazine-style format, with lots of light, pictorial features and long interpretive reports on issues such as the labor movement in the auto industry. To critics who wanted more traditional "news," Isaacs had a standard retort: "Who says it's a newspaper?" Readers, it seemed, asked the same question, and not rhetorically...
...them at all. The Dutch market, in the late 1650s, had a vogue for Scandinavian waterfalls; Ruisdael obligingly painted about a hundred of them, undeterred by the fact that he had never been north of Holland. His Haarlempjes, or "Views of Haarlem," were also bread and butter; their usual format is one of the best-loved images of Dutch landscape-a wide, flat horizon, punctuated by a church tower, overwhelmed by blowing clouds and permeated by Ruisdael's mild northern light. They repeat themselves, but a man has a right to his own cliches-up to a point...