Word: objection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time of last week's announcement, ABC was not the object of a takeover attempt by anyone outside the broadcasting field, but at least one other network was under siege. Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina has helped launch an effort by Fairness in Media, a conservative group, to buy up CBS and, as he put it, "become Dan Rather's boss." The Washington Post reported last week that Atlanta's Ted Turner, the cable-TV entrepreneur, told CBS lawyers that he had had extensive discussions with Helms about taking over...
...however, the ambition seems satisfied by the continuing frenzy of his work, by the attention his policy pronouncements are getting and by the downright amazing adoration he encounters all over the country. Lee Iacocca did not set out to become the object of a personality cult, but hey, what the hell? It is fun for him to be able to turn down a $300,000 TV commercial for Pepsi. "I took a powder," he explains. It pleases him to decline movie producers' serious offers to buy the rights to Iacocca. "The hell with the half-million advance," he says...
City Councilor Alice Wolf, who served on the school committee for eight years, said she did not object to the concept of multigrading, but that it was not the way to cut the budget...
...President's intentions that are in doubt. This week's veto was a token gesture of fiscal sobriety, another in a long series of instances where the President has found a specific and relatively weak group to bear the burden of his deficit. It's not that we object to his efforts to sort out government finances, it's that he's pursuing his objectives in an inequitable manner. And for as long as he refuses to prescribe at least one of the two remedies indispensable to curing deficit ills, namely, slower increases in defense spending and/or increased government revenues...
...agreement that regulated and restricted defenses in a way the Soviets could live with would almost certainly preclude the operational testing as well as the deployment of Star Wars. (Presumably laboratory $ research could continue.) The object of Star Wars, as seen by the Soviets, is to deprive them of any effective offensive force, be it for first strike, second or third. For that reason, they are unlikely to sign any accord that leaves open the possibility of the U.S.'s eventually developing defenses more ambitious and comprehensive than those permitted under an interim agreement of some kind. The Soviets fear...