Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vice president who launched Video Newscasting Network last year. Madden's 200 subscribers-most of them general managers of local television stations-pay an annual subscription fee of $330 (for broadcasters) or $495 (for non-broadcasters). They receive a biweekly tape running approximately 40 minutes, containing the scoop on everything from the latest electronic equipment and last week's big trade convention to tips on new shows and interviews with movers and shakers...
Democrat Henry Jackson of Washington, a man who wanted to be President, sipped tea in a deserted corner of the Senate dining room one evening last week. A busy day was ebbing for "Scoop," co-sponsor with Virginia's John Warner of a new proposal for a freeze and reduction of nuclear weapons. A Rumanian delegation was waiting nervously outside to shake his hand. Aides scurried in and out, whispering to the Senator about committee votes on whether to authorize new nuclear aircraft carriers...
...Rigidity," muttered Scoop, as if the word had a bad taste. "Partisan politicians, ideologues," he added with equal suspicion. "We have to make this system work, and you cannot go out and look in a book for directions. We need intellectual pragmatism with integrity...
...less important scientifically, both landers managed to drill a few centimeters into the Venusian surface, scoop up some rock and analyze its chemistry. The conclusion: the material at both sites was basalt, fire-formed rock typically found in lava flows on earth. Indeed, based on its telltale traces of potassium, the material at Venera 14's site seemed uncannily like rocks that come out of the earth at the volcanically active mid-ocean ridges...
...lurk in unlikely places (see chart). Limiting salt is not just a matter of giving up pickles, pretzels and anchovy pizzas, or throwing out the salt shaker. A single serving of instant chocolate pudding can have twice as much sodium as a small bag of potato chips, and a scoop of cottage cheese three times that of a handful of salted peanuts. Thanks in part to the sodium in baking powder and baking soda, baked goods and cereals are the No. 1 source of sodium in the diet of many Americans. Preservatives such as sodium benzoate and sodium nitrite...