Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who take as gospel everything in print have this year been asked to believe that History is over. They have been told that Science may soon be gone as well. And New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis '48 has given them an apocalyptic view with a column on "The End of Forever...
...cannot be excluded that the same thing could happen here. We must keep in mind that the electorate, given the past 40 years, is out to punish the Communist Party...
There are people who would like to do it. But given the lack of support among the people and the fact that the international situation is not favorable for such an attempt, I see no possibility of it happening...
...turmoil began early this year with the leaking of an internal memo in which Gumbel bluntly criticized several of his Today colleagues, notably weatherman Willard Scott. Egos were still being massaged when the show went through a behind-the-scenes shake-up: NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol was given new responsibilities as the executive in charge of Today, an unusual and controversial appointment for someone outside the News division. Then came Norville's unseating of veteran John Palmer as anchor of the Today newscasts. Norville's sudden prominence (unlike Palmer, she occasionally gets to join Gumbel and Pauley...
...fact, Haavelmo's prize reflected a situation that is unique to the award for economics. The Nobel Prizes were first given in 1901, but the economics citation was not added until 1969, when it was established by Sweden's central bank. That late start has prompted the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to choose many older economists whose work could not be recognized when it was first published. "They're clearing up the backlog," says Harvard economist Zvi Griliches, who hailed this year's choice. "They haven't got to the point of recognizing something interesting that happened...