Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasons behind the news industry's poor performance go to the heart of its clubby, old-boy traditions. After 1968, many news organizations were quick to step up black recruiting, sponsor scholarships and institute special internship programs. Even so, studies show that the average minority reporter quits journalism much earlier than whites do. Though some are lured away to more lucrative fields, many are frustrated by limited opportunities to move up. "People who have worked hard, been on the rewrite bank, done the police beat are not being promoted as fast as their white counterparts," charges Ira Hadnot, a vice...
...event is winding down, and Biden, the quick-smiling Irish-Catholic pol, kisses and jokes his way back to the Jeep. He seems to know who among the women in pantsuits sent the fruit baskets, who the flowers. He calls out to George Collins, who brought a truckload of watermelons from his farm, to save...
Bush would have none of that. "I'm not going to let insidious rumormongers drive me into changing my mind," he declared. By week's end Quayle was making tactical progress. Tenacious digging by reporters had turned up no conclusive evidence that rules were broken by his quick admission to the National Guard. The managing editor of his grandfather's newspaper, Wendell Phillippi, had indeed called an old acquaintance, the Guard planning officer, on Quayle's behalf. This old-brass network clearly expedited Quayle's access to a relatively safe haven, but such transactions were common throughout the country during...
Since the crash, many legislators have urged a clampdown on program trading, in which large blocks of stocks and futures contracts are simultaneously traded to reap a quick profit from price discrepancies. The Big Board has imposed its own safeguard: a ban on the practice whenever the Dow Jones industrial average falls more than 50 points in one session. But the new study is likely to ease the pressure for more controls. Said Robert Kirby, a Los Angeles money manager who has attacked program trading in the past: "If the numbers stay like this, it may go away...
...story of Cathy Weaver (Winger), an FBI agent sent into the farm belt to investigate an armed conspiracy of the crackpot right. She falls in with, and then in love with, Gary (Tom Berenger), the man of her darkest dreams. For such a paranoid gent, he is pretty quick to accept Cathy. Before you can say "George Lincoln Rockwell," he has invited her to a "coon hunt" -- ten white men having fatal sport with one innocent black. Before you can mutter "Zionist Occupation Government," he has taken her on dates to a paramilitary campground, a bank robbery and a political...