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...Evelyn Friedman, a spokesman of the Tierney Election Committee, said that the challenger's main concerns are those of housing and public schools...
...want to create affordable housing but not have people at each others' throats," said Friedman...
...network's most vexing problems. While the news division's past efforts were considered too staid to become widely popular, The Morning Program had the opposite trouble. Hartley's awkward one-liners and forced banter were particularly grating. "It was like screeching nails against a blackboard," says Steve Friedman, former executive producer of Today and one of The Morning Program's most enthusiastic detractors...
...began building a corps of young scientists and selecting projects based on their scientific value rather than the political standing of scientists. He fought for access to computers. Most important, and politically the riskiest, he introduced a potent measure of democracy into the Soviet program. "Before Sagdeyev," says Louis Friedman, executive director of the U.S. Planetary Society, "the Soviet space program was closed. Now they talk about their plans. They even argue in public. He has materially changed the way they do major projects." Declares Thomas Donahue, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences' space-science board: "He introduced glasnost...
...there was some gratification derived from the fact that the American people had at last been able to witness the arrogance of electronic journalism. "The network correspondents quite often think they are more important than the President," says a Reagan aide. When Newsday's veteran White House hand, Saul Friedman, upbraided Wallace for his performance, the NBC man told him to lay off, since they were both in the same business. "Oh, no, we're not," shot back Friedman. That is the point. Do the highly charged careers of these television stars require them, even against their better judgment...