Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report feeling any sudden impact. Whatever happened, the bow doors of the cavernous vehicle deck, which was holding 88 cars and 36 trucks, suddenly swung open. The car deck flooded, causing the vessel to tip over. Peter Ford, managing director at Townsend Thoresen, the British company that owns the Herald of Free Enterprise, acknowledged that "somehow the doors burst open and the water rushed...
...carry cargo and passengers between the British coast and half a dozen ports in France, Belgium and Holland. The vessels have sometimes been criticized by safety experts, who say that the open holding bays for cars and trucks make the ships very unstable if they are flooded. Before the Herald disaster, there had been six ferry accidents in the English Channel region in the past five years, causing ten deaths. But British Shipping Minister Lord Brabazon insisted that the "ferries have a very good safety record. There are more than 200 crossings every day with very, very few accidents." Cold...
Baker walked into the pressroom on Monday afternoon, announcing, "I intend to do this often." That was welcome news to reporters, who had found Regan reclusive during his final months. Baker deftly handled sticky questions about remarks he made to a Miami Herald editor on a Miami-to-Washington flight two weeks ago. Baker, whose comments were printed in last Sunday's Herald, told the editor that the President's memory had a short "half-life." Explained Baker last week: "As majority leader, I found that the President was as good as anybody in the give-and-take on complex...
When Henry Morton Stanley went to Africa to find Dr. Livingstone for the New York Herald, he may have carried no more than a note pad and a few supplies. In the electronic age, reporters backpack a heavier load. A network correspondent must lead a safari of a producer and camera and sound technicians. Each network spends up to $10 million a year to maintain Washington offices, but even the smallest bureau can run up a $500,000 annual tab. CBS spends nearly as much on Diane Sawyer's $1.2 million contract as on the three bureaus it will...
...furor grew after the Miami Herald quoted a remark by new Chief of Staff Howard Baker that when Mrs. Reagan "gets her hackles up, she can be a dragon." A front-page story in the New York Times announced that the First Lady intended to increase her involvement in White House affairs, including the effort to reach an arms-control agreement with the Soviets...