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Dates: during 1980-1989
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News personalities, of course, bring special skills to their jobs that are not always appreciated. They must be able not only to report the news but to communicate it effectively. An appealing on-camera demeanor is no less important than a writer's prose style or a magazine's layout. "You have to be a special combination of person to be the focal point of a successful show," says NBC News president Michael Gartner, a former newspaper editor. "You have to be a good journalist, and you have to be able to deliver the message -- which a print person doesn...
...Less than half an hour later, there was a knock at the door. I cracked the door, and at that point he was opening the screen door and coming in and saying 'I have to talk to you.' It was the same man. His attitude was 'We don't want you here.' He commented that he had been shot by a black once. Then he started going into 'black trash' and so on and so forth. He let me know that if I decided to stay there, I would have to look forward to whatever happened and he would...
During the campaign, the L.D.P. repeatedly demonstrated just how out of touch it had become. One L.D.P. legislator suggested that the consumption tax would be less painful if it were an even 4% instead of 3%. Another party member said farmers were only intelligent enough to do manual work. Credit for the greatest blunder, however, went to Agriculture Minister Hisao Horinouchi, who said, "It is wrong for women to come to the forefront of politics." Pausing just long enough to take one foot out of his mouth and insert the other, Horinouchi then attacked Doi, the popular Socialist leader. "British...
...voters seemed ready to embrace that message, but women still have far to go. They hold less than 2% of the seats in the lower house. In nearly a century of parliamentary government, only three women have held Cabinet posts; none do so at present. Yet women's eyes have been opened to new political opportunity. "I feel like our long-term movement has finally flowered," said Michiko Matsuura, president of the League of Women Voters of Japan...
Though the DC-10 had suffered no serious problems since a string of crashes in the late 1970s, superstitious air travelers were beginning to wonder if the plane was now simply too spooked to fly. No less troubled was the International Airline Passengers Association, a Dallas-based consumer group that claims 110,000 members. After the Sioux City crash, the I.A.P.A. demanded that the Federal Aviation Administration investigate possible design flaws in the DC-10 and ground the nation's fleet if necessary...