Word: medalic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...degree is long overdue when you consider that Harvard gave [U.S. Attorney General] Ed Meese a medal last year but did not honor one of the men who has done the most for the people of the city," says Joseph P. Kennedy II, (D.--Ma.), who won O'Neill's vacated seat in November...
...landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954) that separate schools for blacks are unconstitutional; in Stockholm. In 1968 his massive ten-year study, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, maintained that land reform would wipe out Third World poverty. Myrdal was awarded a Nobel medal for economics in 1974. He and his wife Alva, who died in 1986, four years after being named a Nobel Peace laureate for her tireless advocacy of nuclear disarmament, helped design the Swedish welfare state. Nonetheless, Gunnar Myrdal in 1980 charged that excessive taxation was "turning Swedes into a gang...
...photojournalist, the Robert Capa Gold Medal is the ultimate accolade. Given by the Overseas Press Club (to honor the LIFE photographer killed in Indochina in 1954) "for best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise," it entails a deliberate decision to go in harm's way, recording battles and disasters...
...exposed an array of abuses in the Philadelphia court system. Three reporters, Daniel R. Biddle, H.G. Bissinger and Fredric N. Tulsky, spent more than two years pursuing the story. Their findings led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to assume control of the troubled local court system last April. The gold medal for public service went to a series by Pittsburgh Press Reporters Andrew Schneider and Matthew Brelis that exposed inadequate FAA screening of airline pilots for drug abuse and other medical problems...
...best. That has been the Marines' coda from Tripoli to Belleau Wood, from Guadalcanal to Inchon. But in the past few years, these gleaming images have dissolved into others: blood-spattered rubble in Beirut, interservice turf battles in Grenada, a can-do lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North...