Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the U.S. had not fully digested it. "What is it?" Bush snapped. "Find out." Aides scurried for information from National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. Bush tucked the new development away in his mind without comment, a kind of armor against questions that might arise in his upcoming press conference...
...revenge at its most brutal, the latest and most vicious reminder yet of Noriega's arrogant lawlessness. For more than a year, Noriega has ignored two U.S. indictments accusing him of complicity in the international drug trade. He has jailed or deported opponents, destroyed the sprigs of a free press, and watched his country slide into economic ruin rather than give up the whips of power. Nonetheless, Noriega outdid himself last week by stealing an election so brazenly that, in the words of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, it amounted to "a coup d'etat...
Number crunching: At a press conference last Monday announcing his resignation as athletic director after 12 years, Reardon said the expansion of women's athletic programs was one of his top achievements. When a reporter asked how many new women's programs were added during his tenure, Reardon said he did not know. From the back of the room, outgoing Director of Sports Information Frank M. Cicero called out "four...
...bars lately trying to find the source of their dubious appeal. After all, the illicit thrill of drinking when you are underage is gone if you're a senior. Three-fourths of the partygoers are not seniors, the people you presumably came to see. Conversation is impossible, and the press toward the keg of lame beer resembles a British soccer match...
...ethnic unrest to land leasing and family farms. Foreign Ministry staffers, with their boss's encouragement, have lobbied other branches of the bureaucracy to improve the country's human rights image. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, 59, has smoothly refined the notion of glasnost in government at daily press briefings, packaging information with slivers of barbed wit. When clashes between troops and nationalist demonstrators in Shevardnadze's native republic of Georgia claimed the lives of 20 people last month, the Foreign Minister canceled a visit to East and West Germany and flew to Tbilisi. He has called the peacekeeping mission...