Word: posts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short, the rise of the new era in East-West relations is not due to some new-found good intentions in the Kremlin but rather to the fact that Gorbachey sought a solution to problems--created by long-term American post-war policies--immediately besetting the Soviet Union...
...possibility of a hardliner backlash notwithstanding, one can see that the Soviets have been the short-run losers of the Cold War. In a war of economic attrition they could not keep pace with the rival U.S. and they are now reconsidering the wisdom of continuing their post-war policies...
Hightower, who heads a staff of 575 state workers, was elected to his post in 1982 and re-elected in 1986 with 60% of the vote. His foes realize they would be unlikely to whip him at the polls, so they want to abolish his job and replace it with a panel appointed by the Governor. Hightower forced the showdown two months ago, when he made the surprise decision to pass up a race for the U.S. Senate against Republican Phil Gramm and instead run for re- election in 1990. Then he promptly spurred a ruckus with his plan...
...decides to give it a try. This antihero, who assumes the name and hospital residency of an acquaintance who is killed in an accident before he can report for duty, makes some disastrous mistakes -- but such is the imposing aura of his purported professional credentials that he keeps his post through scrape after scrape, and sometimes does succeed. Nonetheless, he lives in fear of exposure, and tension mounts. The character is depicted with a remarkably skillful blend of empathy and distaste, so that from page to page the reader roots for him to get caught or to get away with...
Their salaries are mind-boggling. Chung, who was making $1 million at NBC, will reportedly get in the neighborhood of $1.5 million a year at CBS, roughly the same as what Sawyer is said to be getting from ABC for leaving her post at CBS's top-rated magazine show, 60 Minutes. That puts both of them behind only Barbara Walters (more than $2 million) as the highest-paid women in TV news. Even Williams, coming from low-paying CNN, will ring up a respectable $500,000 or so annually at NBC. "We are watching a profound shift...