Word: primes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of star news executives battle over, make promises to, open their wallets for? Last February, after more than ten years at CBS, she was hired away by ABC for a reported $1.6 million a year. The primary lure: the chance to join Sam Donaldson as co-anchor of Prime Time Live, the new weekly show that will debut this Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT. In addition, ABC dangled occasional fill-in anchor duty on World News Tonight and Nightline. The prospect of losing Sawyer so rattled CBS's bigwigs that they virtually handed her a blank check...
Today, as the networks fight to retain their dwindling audiences, prime-time news programming is becoming more desirable because it costs only about half as much to produce as entertainment fare. And to compete in the glitzy arena of The Cosby Show and Dallas, stars are a must. Other entertainment elements are creeping into these shows as well. On Prime Time Live, Sawyer and Donaldson will be joined by an unusual (for a news show) featured player: a live studio audience. Both Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow and the revamped West 57th will feature dramatized "re-creations" of events, a dubious enterprise...
...vote gave the combined forces of Japan's opposition parties control of one of the houses in the Diet for the first time. Although the L.D.P. maintains control of the more powerful lower house, and therefore of the government, the defeat threw into question the party's continued dominance. Prime Minister Sousuke Uno promptly resigned his post after only two months, saying, "The entire responsibility for the defeat lies with...
...potential consequences of the voter backlash, they did concur on the causes of the L.D.P. rout. The vote amounted to a referendum on the party's arrogant and scandal-tainted performance in recent months. The downslide began with a bribery and influence-peddling scandal that forced the resignation of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita last April. The L.D.P. further alienated voters, especially women, by imposing a controversial 3% consumption tax. In agreeing to liberalize agricultural imports, the party angered farmers, long the chief pillar of its support. The final straw came just weeks after Uno was named Prime Minister, when...
...greatest blunder, however, went to Agriculture Minister Hisao Horinouchi, who said, "It is wrong for women to come to the forefront of politics." Pausing just long enough to take one foot out of his mouth and insert the other, Horinouchi then attacked Doi, the popular Socialist leader. "British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is an exception, but she has a husband and children," Horinouchi asserted. "Doi does not. Can such a person serve as Prime Minister...