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Word: nbc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cuban-type star on it. (Nobody knew exactly what a Cuban-type star was supposed to look like.) In another report, the prisoner was said to have died. "Now they'll never know if he had a Cuban accent," said one reporter. Out in the countryside, ABC and NBC vans in search of the elusive Cuban bogged down in the mud, and a Salvadoran peasant collected two crisp 100 colones notes ($80) to haul the vans out with a team of oxen-while a network cameraman captured the action. When Ike Seamans of NBC approached the San Vicente garrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Searching for Bang-Bang | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...year-old Jim Maslinski, an inmate at a Florida State prison, testified against three jailhouse rapists and exposed himself to violent threats of reprisal. (Wasn't that the subject of a recent NBC movie...

Author: By Benjamin B. Sherwood, | Title: Stranger Than Fiction | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...image. CBS Anchorman Dan Rather, 50, who had struck some viewers as chilly after the avuncular Walter Cronkite, took to wearing a sleeveless, V-necked pullover on his newscasts some three months ago. Perhaps not so coincidentally, he has since reclaimed Cronkite's traditional top spot ahead of NBC and ABC. Says Rather: "God knows what would happen if you put a ring in your nose." Without going that far, Rather is prepared to stay bundled up through the summer. "If it takes wearing a sweater when it's 112 degrees," he vows, "we'll turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 22, 1982 | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...they haven't added any seats to the creaky fifth-floor gym, but NBC will broadcast the 1 p.m. contest against Princeton with former Harvard hoop star James Brown '71sharing the play-by-play chores...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Penn and Princeton Invade Cambridge; Harvard Faces Must-Win Weekend | 2/13/1982 | See Source »

...Crimson faces Penn (3-2) on Sunday in a game originally scheduled for last night but postponed to give NBC plenty of time to lay its cable and position its cameras...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Penn and Princeton Invade Cambridge; Harvard Faces Must-Win Weekend | 2/13/1982 | See Source »

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