Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...media is not giving adequate attention to the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic, a gay rights activist said yesterday at a speech in Boylston Hall attended by half a dozen people...
They were ahead of the field by the 18-mile point and ran together for about the next six-and-a-half miles, exchanging the lead occasionally, although Ikangaa was in front most of the time...
Emanating from a new 40,000-sq.-ft. studio facility in Fort Lee, N.J., CNBC's offerings will have as a centerpiece a daytime "money wheel": a continuous half-hour cycle of business headlines, market reports, consumer news and other business-related items. In the evenings, however, the programming will range more widely. John McLaughlin, host of the syndicated McLaughlin Group, will do an hour-long talk show with such guests as Malcolm Forbes, Henry Kissinger and Phil Donahue. Dick Cavett has been signed as host of another nightly interview program; his first week's guests will include Jimmy Breslin...
...profit health-care corporation. Blessed in its early years with remarkable taste, or maybe beginner's luck, the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville soon developed into a hallmark of the regional- theater movement and one of the nation's prime showcases for new plays. Half a dozen transferred to Broadway or the movies. Two, The Gin Game and Crimes of the Heart, won Pulitzer Prizes. Then the festival fell on hard times. Of 37 works introduced from 1985 to 1988, few went on to major stagings, and none was a real winner...
...Robert Lichter of the Center for Media and Public Affairs is factual. He records all the network evening news shows and analyzes them. Bush's presence is diminishing, that of Cabinet officers and other Administration spokesmen rising. The White House now is the focus of Administration news only about half the time, compared with 72% in the first days. "So far," says Lichter, "the 'just folks' presidency is working. Bush gets less press but better press. Bush is far more visible to the press than he is to the public, just the opposite of Reagan, who was far more visible...