Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the members of the media--at least the ones who came through my door--were not. A favorite tactic of the crews was to have the enormous cameraman block me with his equipment, or try to distract me in some way, while the others ran past. They grew more creative as the week ran on, while the crowds swelled. At around 9 p.m. on Thursday night, the Chicago Fire Marshal decided that there were too many people on the floor. However, this was an arena, there were no real doors, only portals, so the marshal decided to have...
...fatal mistake of using the rest room at the wrong time tried to get back through to her seat. Since her crew was safely inside the arena, she had to fend for herself. She backed up 20 feet and got a running start. Microphone pointing the way, she ran straight into me, figuring once I was knocked out, entrance would be easy. As I restrained her and yelled for my supervisor, she tried to be rational. "Don't you know who I am?" she pleaded. "This is what I've been here all week for," she whined. Finally...
...down at 6:30. That's when we will give you the news.' Now we pick when we have time to watch the news." The O.J. Simpson case also broke many viewers of the evening news habit: when the trial (carried live on several cable channels) ran into the evening newscasts in the East and Midwest, viewers simply continued watching the trial...
...editor Maxwell King insists that the Inquirer has "managed to stay whole in all the important ways." This fall, for instance, the paper ran a series, "America: Who Stole the Dream?," for which two reporters spent more than two years, beginning before the 1995 cutbacks, researching the loss of decent jobs for blue-collar workers. King does not object to the demand for double-digit profitability, but he does wonder what further compromises may be necessary to achieve it. "We have stuck stubbornly to substance, and we've lost a lot of circulation," he says. "What makes a newspaper successful...
...life of crime is not for the stupid, as Carlester Eric Robinson discovered after allegedly shoplifting at a Baltimore pharmacy. He ran onto the set of NBC's Homicide, where actors had just finished a scene and still had their fake guns drawn. "The guy looked around and dropped his bag," says RICHARD BELZER (Detective John Munch). "We all just looked at him. Then he realized it was TV and looked really embarrassed." Security guards handed him over to the real cops, who charged him with theft. His haul? Kodak film and Q-Tips...