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...example: Observer reporters spent 21 months digging through expense vouchers at the Southern Bell Telephone Co.; so far, eleven executives have been indicted for cheating the utility. The paper's support of school busing has not pleased many readers, but Editor Reese Cleghorn's sensitive editorials rarely offend. That editorial-page task is left to Doug Marlette, 26, whose tough cartoons are syndicated to 80 dailies. Lately, Executive Editor David Lawrence has invited local businessmen to sit in on editorial meetings. "We're not afraid of criticism," he says. "I want this paper to reflect the ideas...
...kind of guy to go around knocking heads together. But the President's got to do it. When you're 20 points behind in the polls, you have to take some risks, and I think one of those risks is that you have to risk offending a few people if you really are going to strengthen your organization. But you really have got to have somebody come in who's going to strengthen it, to add to it. I don't know what [Campaign Director] Rog Morton wants to do. But there is some talk...
Although Baker is a Ford supporter and is credited with the President's narrow victory in the Tennessee primary, he has maintained good relations with Reagan and can be depended on to deliver a keynote speech that will not offend partisans of either candidate...
BILL BROCK, 45, currently favored to be re-elected to the Senate by Tennessee voters next November, would hardly offend the right wing (his recent ratings by Americans for Constitutional Action have ranged from 86% to 94%). He is against school busing, increases in foreign aid and licensing of handguns. But Brock is colorless as a campaigner, and if he withdrew from the Senate race, his seat could be captured by the Democrats...
Anyone who wants to feel oppressed by the English language will never be disappointed. With a vocabulary of some 750,000 words-the world's largest and richest-the language of Shakespeare and Spiro Agnew provides enough terms to offend almost everybody. Those most recently and publicly irked are the feminists. The mother tongue, as they have argued for some time, is a lexicon of male chauvinism. For years the language has evolved along the lines preferred by the male-controlled society that used...