Word: reassertive
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...billion on revenues of $112 billion. "Overall, the company is in good shape," says John Casesa, an analyst with Schroder Wertheim in New York City. "The family is happy with what it sees. The company is flush with cash, and there is a feeling that Ford is starting to reassert its leadership in the industry...
Cornell was a hotbed of controversy during Keyes' first years, and he often found himself in the thick of the action. Several gun-wielding members of the Black Student Union stormed an administration building and the National Guard had to shut down Cornell's campus to reassert authority. Keyes articulated strong opposition to the militant protest, in private, to the group and told it that he disagreed with its tactics and its ideology...
...Regency Hotel in New York have something in common besides king-size beds and minibars: notoriety for two of the most respected names in sports broadcasting. Last Thursday, at a packed news conference in yet another hotel, the Sheraton New York, Albert said, "I would like to reassert my innocence and reiterate that all the charges against me are false." He then vowed to continue working the N.B.A. play-offs for NBC. In attendance were his four children, one of whom is also a sportscaster (New York Rangers play-by-play man Kenny Albert), as well as Marv...
...will broadcast Saturday?s NBA playoff game between Chicago and Miami, Sportscaster Marv Albert maintained that he did not assault a woman in Washington, D.C. "In light of the substance and source of the allegations that have surfaced in the last 48 hours," he said, "I would like to reassert my innocence and reiterate that all the charges against me are false." Albert faced the press hours after reports surfaced that his alleged victim is facing trial on charges that she threatened to kill a former boyfriend when he planned to take a vacation without her. In an affidavit filed...
...years of ratings dominance, Peter Jennings' evening newscast, World News Tonight, has been overtaken in recent weeks by the snazzier, more cleverly packaged NBC Nightly News. Creatively too, ABC's flagship newscast seems adrift, first softening the show to combat NBC, more recently retrenching a bit and trying to reassert its hard-news credentials. Good Morning America, the No. 1-rated morning show for much of the '90s, has slipped into second place, well behind NBC's Today show. Of course the network still has the indispensable Nightline, which frequently beats both Letterman and Leno in the late-night ratings...