Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party's nomination. And it's about time that the media, Democratic party officials, and the other candidates start taking Jackson, his record, and his views seriously. As Rep. Thomas Downey (D.-N.Y.) pointed out, there's a racial double standard protecting Jackson, who has so far been given a "free ride on some very controversial issues...
...GIVEN that, the Rev. Martin Thompson was not the man to be put in charge of a political event. Not that he was the man to lead a Sunday service either, but he certainly had no idea of the nuances of a modern political happening. He wasn't neat, photogenic, or thin himself, and he had no awareness of the need for those qualities for others. But he was the minister of the largest church in town. So he got to introduce Jesse, right after "Shall We Gather By the River...
...Jesse got going too good, they had a special sign to cut him off at the appropriate time, and they knew it would mean nothing if the candidate couldn't see the time. Jesse lived in slow time--preacher time, that is, and he would naturally assume at the given time that he had a few more minutes to speak, even as the sign flashed from the nervous front...
Reporting, writing and publishing a potential winner are merely the beginning. To narrow the final choices of the board, 65 men and women prominent in the field were divided into five-member juries that winnowed a record 1,708 journalism entries this year and recommended three choices for a given category. Jurors have only three days to read hundreds of thousands of words. To get the judges' attention and stand out in the tonnage, newspapers sometimes run ads in trade publications, and editors have taken to distributing reprints of their papers' articles to colleagues at other shops...
...entries are often elaborate productions. If a prize were given for the most overblown submission, the Arizona Republic might be a winner. It sent a scrapbook slightly larger than a full newspaper page (the board's expressed size limit), complete with a movie-poster-style cover. Inside, a five-page letter sang the praises of the Republic series on mismanagement in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a thick stack of documents attested to the story's impact. "Next year I'm automatically going to vote against any entry that weighs more than I do," joked one weary reader. Juror...