Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...viewer -- from cable outlets like CNN, aggressive local stations and syndicated shows -- the networks are trying to stress what makes them distinctive: namely, their anchors. That's why Rather, Jennings and Tom Brokaw can be seen jetting off to Eastern Europe or China whenever the President (or a Soviet leader) hops an airplane. Network executives gamely defend such trips on journalistic grounds, but they are primarily promotional gimmicks meant to showcase the network's resident Bigfoot. "We're almost defining news in such a way as to say something's not important unless an anchor is there," says Everette Dennis...
...face it, with two major international tours under his belt, President Bush has quietly illustrated that, while he may be a first-rate friend, he is definitely a second-rate leader...
Evita shone gloriously in rhetoric as a visiting second-rate leader. She was feted by everyone, but a snubbing by the English and her own illness struck down the optimistic tenor of the "Rainbow Tour...
...package to the heavilyindebted Polish economy has been described most favorably as "modest." He is Poland's friend, too--Solidarity leader Lech Walesa felt humble serving Bush a meal in his home. But Bush has done little to help the Polish economy recover from its sorry state...
Sheik Abbas Mousawi, a senior Hezbollah leader, told journalists its "reprisal will be ruthless if America undertakes a military action against hostage-holding groups...