Word: lynch
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...successful woman. That debate was further fueled by the announcement by TV newswoman Connie Chung that she would abandon the fast track at CBS in a last-ditch drive for motherhood at age 44. Meanwhile, male role models are also in flux. Wall Street wonder boy Peter Lynch hung up his $13 billion mutual fund to do good deeds and have more time with his family. What generation in history has enjoyed such liberty to write the rules as it goes along? Over the past 30 years, all that was orthodox has become negotiable...
Even alarmists concede that newspapers will persist in some form for a long time. Says analyst John Morton of the consultants Lynch Jones & Ryan: "There is still no cheaper or more economic way to deliver a mass amount of news to a mass audience." But in a business accustomed to high profit, a slight slippage can result in cutbacks of coverage. Some editors predict that newspapers will become repackagers, rather than originators, of information, dropping costly foreign bureaus and investigative projects in favor of wire- service copy. Other editors argue that what makes newspapers marketably different is depth and detail...
...hint darkly of liberal agents provacateurs who had burrowed their way on to the review's staff. The Wall Street Journal devoted almost an entire editorial page to the defense of the Review, and an American Enterprise Institute scholar told journalists that the Dartmouth administration had "convened a lynch mob to make scapegoats of innocent students...
Must politics be as venomous and vacant as the atmospherics of a David Lynch movie? Perhaps not: a few heartening signs are emerging of a movement to reform campaign tactics. There is renewed interest in congressional proposals to require that the candidate or his designated spokesman appear on camera throughout all TV spots. "That way you would be returning politics to speech, not emotive symbols," argues Curtis Gans, the director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. "It isn't attractive television for someone to just stand there and bad-mouth the opposition." Last week People...
...invitation [to participate in the program] was to all teaching affiliate hospitals," Lynch said...