Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest stockholder (he controls 24.9% of the outstanding shares) was underlined once again last week. As Tisch and Paley emerged from a three-hour regular monthly session of the 14-member CBS board, word spread that directors had once again avoided choosing a Wyman successor. A seven-member search committee, headed by former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, has met three times so far but has set no deadline for its task. The main reason for the committee's lassitude is that Tisch is not yet finished with his task of reorganizing the company...
...Miami Vice antics of Rivera's show highlighted concerns about the increasingly common practice of letting TV crews tag along on drug raids. A search warrant, says Judge Shipley, does not give police "permission to put the whole nation into somebody's house with TV cameras." Some police officials object that the cameras, lights and onlookers can jeopardize safety. Nor is TV merely an eavesdropper. During one raid on Rivera's show, an officer could plainly be heard to make a telling, and disturbing, inquiry: "We are still live...
...College officials, in search of new toys...
...attraction. And gradually, the films' creators managed to beam the series up to competence, even to emotional resonance. In 1982 The Wrath of Khan brought Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) back from the executive junk heap to conquer both an old nemesis and a mid-life crisis. In 1984 The Search for Spock resurrected Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) for a reunion with Kirk that was tender enough to make a Vulcan almost cry. Now comes The Voyage Home -- and a radical, canny shift of moods. This time, if you laugh at Star Trek, you are in good company. The whole starship...
...Mitra, "but the obstacles will be overcome." The agreement with the Communist-dominated National Democratic Front, the political umbrella organization for the 20,000-member New People's Army, permits as many as 50 rebel negotiators to set up a headquarters in Manila. They will be immune from official search, arrest and prosecution. The armed forces will retain the right to respond to "hostile acts" by the N.P.A. during the truce...