Word: shakiest
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...Boyer oversimplifies. Many of the changes at CBS News would have occurred with or without Sauter; nor have all of them been bad. (They have certainly not been unique to CBS.) Boyer is on the shakiest ground in his final chapter, in which he tries to fit the events of the past year -- when CBS News' fortunes have improved -- into his anti-Sauter thesis. His assertion that Rather's newscast has degenerated into a "broad-reaching video tabloid" seems particularly unfounded...
...while the interest rate trend has been favorable, hundreds of the weakest thrift institutions have been all but overwhelmed by unexpectedly large losses from bad loans. Many of the shakiest institutions are in communities that rely on farming or energy production, which have been deeply depressed. About 31% of the savings associations in Iowa and 43% in Oklahoma are losing money. Just last month, a major oil-patch S and L, Western Savings Association of Dallas, was declared insolvent, and control of its $2 billion in assets was seized by the bank board. It was the third largest thrift industry...
...shakiest airlines is TWA, which expects to lose $125 million during the first three months of 1986. Buying Ozark Air Lines is part of an aggressive plan to stanch that red ink. The merger could make TWA, which is best known as an overseas carrier, stronger domestically...
...Brokaw was the coolest and most lucid of the three; Mission Control's first reference to the accident as a "major malfunction" was, he said, "the understatement of the year." CBS's Rather appeared shakiest in the early going, and his network was the slowest to marshal its resources. "What you have here," said Rather at one point, "is a reporter vamping for time." (CBS's most famous space enthusiast, Walter Cronkite, was vacationing abroad when the accident occurred...
...force. Said he: "A significant U.N. role presupposes a return of stability, a balance of forces and some measure of political accord." In other words, creation of a U.N. peace-keeping force presumes there will be a peace for it to keep, and in Lebanon that is about the shakiest assumption anyone can make...