Word: scoopfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inquisition and had in return to face their male and female Torquemadas. Adroit in the arts of publicity, Allen chose NBC's Meet the Press-because the questioners are at the other end of the studio and the questioning is orderly and by turns. He brought them a scoop: he was taking an administrative leave from his job because "it's time that this case be aired in a responsible forum." Such a forum no half-hour television program could possibly be. Some of the asperity in the ensuing questions, particularly by NBC'S Andrea Mitchell, probably...
...many editors feel that the Post squandered a dramatic scoop and possibly misled its readers by not revealing that the architect of the Reagan economic plan did not believe in his own program. Says Chicago Sun-Times Publisher James Hoge...
...Administration budget cutters may scuttle the next Venus flight. The Soviets, who have made Venus a major target of study, should help. They have just sent off two more probes. Both are expected to land on the scorching surface and scoop up samples for quick chemical analysis, radioing back their findings in the hour or so before the ships expire in the Venusian hothouse...
...confrontation between a debtor and a mechanized collection agent: "Speak to me. Your response or lack of it will become a permanent part of your record." Next week's show, a more traditional piece on modern efforts to crack the secrets of the great fiddle makers, manages to scoop Scientific American, whose October cover story on the acoustics of violins misses much of Nova's best material...
Education Week's first edition offered a splendid scoop: a series of excerpts from the 91-page secret memo written by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell telling how he plans to dismantle the Education Department and change the Government's role in education. Wolk's staff of 20 provides a weekly summary of education news in short takes, plus clear but comprehensive studies of major issues. One notable example: a detailed and trenchant analysis of the status and achievements of busing just as the policy is about to be abandoned. The paper's 19,000 charter...