Word: reade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...luncheon, Lee read a message from Dukakis calling for recognition of the "right of the homeless to adequate housing...
That would not be bad, say some medical reporters, who feel the publication has overdosed on power. The Journal defends its embargo as necessary to ensure that complex medical information does not reach the public before it is read and digested by physicians. Says Editor Dr. Arnold S. Relman: "The embargo is important to help doctors take good care of patients." Diagnosis: a standoff between Reuters and the Journal. Prescription: take two aspirin and call each other in the morning...
...hero, and he recalls wangling his way into both the 1952 and 1956 Democratic Party conventions: "When I looked up at the anchor booths, I knew I was looking at the altar." While serving in the Marines, the aspiring journalist met Walter Cronkite, who, he recalls, advised him "to read anything I could get my hands on." He started out in Chicago radio, eventually moving to Washington and television, joining CBS in 1971. Six years later, he jumped to ABC, where as Latin American correspondent he covered the Nicaraguan revolution and the mass suicide at Jonestown. In 1980, when...
...flashed the clearest signal yet, and it sent peace hopes soaring. In a move clearly timed to capture a wide audience, a Soviet broadcaster interrupted a prime-time television showing of the 1958 film based on Mikhail Sholokhov's classic, And Quiet Flows the Don, to read an announcement from Gorbachev. There are "considerable chances," said the General Secretary's statement, that the next round of peace talks on Afghanistan "will become the final...
Paul does not personally blame the elderly. Few young people do, even when they sense, as they read the newspapers or go shopping for a house, that they are walking into a trap. Who is going to protect young families, they wonder, from an economic system that is eroding their living standards? Or a health system that promises at least partial care for the elderly but guarantees nothing for families with sick children? Or a political system that allows communities to outlaw residents under 19 to ensure peace and quiet -- and reduce school taxes at the same time...