Word: globe
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Network anchors have become frequent fliers partly because of the increasingly portable technology of television. Compact editing and control- room equipment and other video gear can now be transported across the globe without great difficulty. If satellite transmission stations are not available locally, they can be packed up and shipped in. Instant satellite hookups last week made possible such scenes as ABC Commentator George Will sparring with Soviet Journalist Vladimir Posner in Moscow, and President Corazon Aquino in the Philippines being interviewed by Dan Rather in the farm belt...
...acquired Frontier, and Northwest has agreed to buy Republic. Says Louis Marckesano, who follows the industry for the Janney Montgomery Scott investment firm: "At this rate, in five to ten years the American airline industry will look like the U.S. auto industry, with three or four megacarriers covering the globe." If that happens, Texas Air and TWA are determined to be among the survivors...
...picture of this," said Maeglin. "If this was on the front cover of the Globe, nobody would believe it was a Harvard dorm unless they lived here...
...Grenada (the White House flew in two limousines, the President's drinking water, two bomb- sniffing dogs and 28 toilets) became the colorful centerpiece of a campaign to sell what has become known as the Reagan Doctrine: U.S. support for "freedom fighters" battling Soviet-backed governments around the globe. Indeed, Reagan's speech at Queen's Park went beyond praise of the newfound freedom in Grenada, and railed against the absence of it in Nicaragua...
With Congress facing painful cutbacks in domestic spending, assistance to "freedom fighters" halfway around the globe is not the most popular issue on the Hill. In addition, many Congressmen feel that the President has been unable to muster much popular enthusiasm for his Central American policies in particular and the Reagan Doctrine in general. House Speaker Tip O'Neill called the President's Grenada visit "a Hollywood kickoff to a greater military involvement in Nicaragua." He warned, "Equipping (the contras) and sending them into battle will lead to nothing but slaughter and humiliation. The shame of that defeat will bring...