Word: march
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 5, 8 p.m. EST). The development of the A-bomb, retold as a three-hour TV movie. Brian Dennehy stars as the general who headed the Manhattan Project; Michael Tucker (L.A. Law) plays a top scientist; and David Ogden Stiers handles the F.D.R. impression...
...APPOINTMENTS OF DENNIS JENNINGS (HBO, starting March 6, 10 p.m. EST). Deadpan comic Steven Wright plays a paranoid writer trying to sort out his life in this short, also an Oscar nominee...
...report cast a spotlight on the quiet but crucial duel between Greenspan and George Bush over U.S. economic policy. In its stand against inflation, the Fed has resolutely tightened credit since last March, when the prime rate stood at 8.5%. But Bush, even though he pledged during the fall campaign to drive inflation down to 2%, insisted two weeks ago that he is not "overly concerned" about the threat of rising prices and cautioned that he "would not like to see" the Fed push interest rates higher. In Tokyo last week, Bush asserted that the Fed might be overreacting...
...Last June's heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks was sold to nearly 600,000 TV homes on a pay-per-view basis at an average $35 a crack. Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed for a PPV event), and well-hyped ring battles like last week's Chi-Town Rumble '89 are coming almost monthly. Robbie Knievel, son of daredevil Evel, will attempt a motorcycle jump over the fountains at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace for a PPV event...
Across the country, lists of candidates were approved after weeks of often stormy preliminary meetings. The sessions became controversial because they included only specially chosen local voters with the power to eliminate candidates before the March 26 vote. "Why should we, 886 people, make a decision for all of Moscow?" asked a delegate at the meeting that nominated Yeltsin. "We need a system that is fully democratic...