Word: majored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called me queen of the stakeouts"). Her big chance came after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. She broadcast live reports from the damaged reactor -- borrowing a producer's tennis shoes so she could stand atop the microwave truck in the rain without slipping off -- and got her first major exposure on the CBS Evening News. After a stint covering the 1980 presidential campaign, she was assigned to the State Department, where she impressed her bosses with her hard work and excellent sources. Says former CBS News president Richard Salant: "I think she was the best State Department reporter...
...When we got in ((the housing project)), there was a struggle to survive. It was the late 1970s, and the vibrations from both groups was very hostile, very, very hostile. There was almost every day a major crime -- people getting mugged, robbed, chains snatched, children beaten. And not people of both groups: the victims were always somebody out of the 49%. A kid who was sent down to the grocery, an adult would escort him. Forget the playground. Only one kind of people used that, and that was the people who created the nuisance. My wife was mugged...
...American investigators would be hard pressed to prove what was in the briefcase. "While the Soviets have the documents, we're stuck with suspicions," said one. Almost every major spy conviction depends heavily on the suspect's cooperation. The New York Times reported that Bloch told the FBI he was working for "many years" for the KGB and had received "a lot of money," but he refused to talk further about specific acts of espionage...
Whether it was just a minor rumble or a major tremor on the political Richter scale, last week's vote for the upper house of Japan's parliament was certainly a shock to the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled the country for 34 years. In the most devastating setback in its history, the L.D.P. claimed only 36 of the 126 seats up for grabs, while the underdog Japan Socialist Party took 46. Declared exultant J.S.P. leader Takako Doi: "I truly felt the mountains moving...
...J.S.P.'s first major test will be to produce, as promised, an alternative plan to the unpopular consumption tax. Last week the Socialists had little problem persuading the other opposition parties to introduce a bill in the upper house to kill the tax. But the parties were unable to agree on an alternative source of revenue for the government, which needs the money for funding welfare programs, especially the soaring costs of providing care for Japan's aging population...