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...Safire impulsively set up the "kitchen debate" between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon at the American Exhibition in Moscow. Safire's goal was not to boost Nixon but to plug the developer of the "all-American home" in which the famed face-off took place...
When communism began to self-destruct last year, TV journalists did more than just report the phenomenon -- they participated in it. The presence of foreign cameramen seemed to embolden the demonstrators. Once the Chinese authorities decided to shed blood, they literally pulled the plug on television coverage. Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu also kept the press out of his country while he slaughtered its citizens. Not until TV aired footage of his lifeless body were many Rumanians convinced that the despot had really been executed...
Most Overworked Employees. Under straw boss Michael Eisner, the Disney characters Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Snow White and the rest of the gang toiled overtime to plug everything from telephones to hamburgers to Chevrolets. When asked where he would take a vacation, if he ever gets one, Mickey replied, "Anywhere but Orlando...
...change of strategy was so sudden and striking that even veteran policymakers were taken aback. After stressing for months how important it was for the U.S. to stay competitive in high technology, the Bush Administration was getting ready to pull the plug on its two most widely publicized high-tech initiatives. According to reports circulating in Washington, the Administration was determined to cut not only the $10 million it had pledged for research into high-definition television, but all federal support -- including $100 million in 1991 -- for Sematech, the Reagan-era industrial consortium designed to catapult the U.S. into...
...where we are not trying to give anybody a hard time." By Friday, though, Bush realized he had badly underplayed a historic event and, in a speech in Texas, waxed more enthusiastic. "I was moved, as you all were, by the pictures," said Bush. He also got in a plug for his forthcoming meeting with Gorbachev on ships anchored off the coast of Malta: "The process of reform initiated by the East Europeans and supported by Mr. Gorbachev . . . offers us all much hope and deserves encouragement...