Word: sams
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...come up for approval in Congress later this year. In that phase, the Administration is seeking $4 billion for 48 new missiles. Several Senators warned the President that their votes for MX last week should not be construed as commitments to future funding. Said Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn, a defense expert: "I can say with very firm conviction I will not vote for any number approaching...
...What the hell do you mean, I 'owe it to the country'? It would destroy me. I couldn't survive. I would shoot myself first. I don't want to be President. I'm not going to run. I couldn't take four years of (ABC White House Correspondent) Sam Donaldson. I just don't have the desire. I don't want to climb another mountain." Maybe not. But when Lia Iacocca, 20, is asked for a single word to describe her father, she does not first suggest "easygoing" or "content." Her word: "ambitious...
These are the five: Dan Rather, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, Mike Wallace and George Will. For better or worse, a composite of them might form the public's impression of what a working journalist is like. But they are not necessarily the best and certainly not the only top interviewers on TV; those outsize, confident personalities are what create the impression...
Their personalities seem fixed, but like the politicians they cover, the five do change. Sam Donaldson once gave rude behavior its name; he is still stentorian, but on ABC's David Brinkley show, he questions guests intelligently. His colleague George Will has also changed but believes he has not. Will first surfaced as a conservative polemicist. On becoming a highly articulate TV interviewer, he crowded his guests, suggesting that they were not sufficiently militant about intervening in Lebanon, Syria or Nicaragua. If Will emerged seeming bolder and more candid than the person he interviewed, his guest--a politician, a bureaucrat...
...fact that some thrifts were not insured by the U.S. Government. The privately insured S and Ls wear window decals that look as authoritative as the FSLIC symbols, but the thrifts are often not subject to the same degree of oversight as institutions that are insured by Uncle Sam. Some Ohio thrifts may not have sought Government protection because they wanted to avoid the paperwork and scrutiny that comes with U.S. insurance. Ducking the expense of complying with federal regulations may have helped institutions offer savers unusually high interest rates...