Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech came at a moment when Reagan is still doing well with the public. An Associated Press-NBC News poll indicated that 66% consider his performance overall as good or excellent, a shade better than Jimmy Carter's rating at about the same time in 1977. But Reagan is only working half-days in the Oval Office. Perhaps as a result, the Administration's foreign policy is still in some disarray. Even before a politically weakened Alexander Haig flew off to a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Rome, aides of the Secretary of State were trying...
...documents, 700,000 feet of film and 275,000 still photographs that are being catalogued. On display is the letter that Cartoonist Garry Trudeau wrote to Ron Nessen, Ford's press secretary, asking for accreditation on the Chinese trip. Trudeau took along a Frisbee, which he and NBC's Tom Brokaw tossed back and forth on the Great Wall until Susan Ford suggested it was not dignified. From such original research Trudeau conceived the Chinese adventures of "Uncle Duke" in Doonesbury...
...upstart ABC pulled ahead, where it stayed for three seasons. CBS retrieved the top spot by a fraction in 1980, and last week, with the final figures in for this season, it was undisputed champ again, with a Nielsen rating of 19.8, compared with ABC's 18.2 and NBC's 16.6. CBS had eight series in the top ten, leading off with Dallas and 60 Minutes, ABC had two, and poor NBC none at all. Even CBS has a little something to worry about, however. Confronted with competition from cable outlets and non-network shows, all three networks...
...that are meaningless but costly." Another advantage of the system, particularly important to litigants in complicated business cases, is that parties can pick judges with expertise in certain fields. Moreover, proceedings can be held in secret and kept off the public record. When Tonight show Host Johnny Carson and NBC were battling over his contract in 1979, they hired a retired judge to hear their megabuck dispute behind closed doors. (Before the trial began, however, they settled the case...
...about the same time that ABC's Bill Greenwood was asking if Brady was dead. "Yes, I will," Prosperi said to Santini, nodding his head, and Greenwood apparently mistook the sig nal as confirmation of his question - though he insists he heard the words "he died." ABC and NBC also went with reports of Brady's death...