Word: isaacsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...together produced illuminating sparks. Says Senior Editor Walter Isaacson: "Even within the Administration, there is still not a clear idea of what SDI is supposed to do." Indeed, forthright statements from Perle and Nitze defined basic disagreements over Star Wars among the President's men. Says Talbott: "It was exciting to have the dispute played out before...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, David Brand, Martha Duffy, William F. Ewald, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, Stefan Kanfer, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George M. Taber, Robert T. Zintl...
...week on Washington's newest growth industry, TIME describes the phenomenal rise in numbers and clout of the capital's lobbyists and influence peddlers. "It is a revolving door for those who are willing to hawk the connections and access they gained while in office," says Senior Editor Walter Isaacson, who supervised the story. "With tax reform, trade policies and the budget now facing Congress, the effect of influence peddling could become a major political issue...
Staff Writer Richard Stengel, who incorporated the bureaus' vivid reports in his story, immersed himself in books and papers on the subject by criminologists and social scientists. Senior Editor Walter Isaacson supervised the project. Says he: "It was important to amass as much research as possible. Black-on-black violence is a very sensitive subject, one that black leaders are only now willing to talk about." White agrees: "I thought it was time to bring it out of the closet. It's time, long past time, for the killing to stop...
Within an hour after the final statements in Kansas City, the correspondents' reports were in the hands of the Nation section, headed by Senior Editors Stephen Smith and Walter Isaacson. After that, five writers and five reporter-researchers had just 4½ hours to turn out the entire cover package. Says Smith of the complicated logistics: "Like the candidates in their preparations for the debate, we were trying to cover every possible option and be ready for every possible contingency. And like them, we were rather hoping the debate would not offer too many unanticipated shocks...