Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...A.B.A.'s conservative course is unlikely to shift in the near future. In any case, new President Wallace Riley of Detroit would like to de-emphasize issues, at least for the year he holds office. His top priority is increasing the group's membership, which at 300,000 includes only half the attorneys...
...tongue-tied man a ceremony of love." Years of loneliness have strengthened his faith and given him a sense of how his marriage failed: "Twelve years later I believe ritual would have healed us more quickly than the repetitious talks we had, perhaps even kept us healed." The shift from senseless to redemptive suffering marks Dubus as a writer with a distinguished past and a promising future...
...shift in pattern was prompted by the death two weeks ago of ABC'S Washington-based anchor, Frank Reynolds. After he went on sick leave in April, ABC'S nightly news ratings dropped from second place to third, but the advantage went mostly to CBS. Those results convinced top officials at NBC that the pairing of the puckish Brokaw and dour Roger Mudd, 55, had little chance of catching on. A peripatetic workaholic, Brokaw has made mild fun of Mudd's reluctance to leave Washington in pursuit of story or spectacle. Though Brokaw continues to regard Mudd...
...agreed to share the job to help NBC keep Brokaw. For his pains, Mudd was reassigned to what he does as well as nearly anyone else in television, political reporting. He announced his ouster to newsroom colleagues last Tuesday. Nothing was said on the show that night about the shift, because Frank anticipated "an awkward moment, whether Mudd or Brokaw reported it." Afterward, however, Mudd allowed that he had longed to close the show with the ironic salutation, "Good night from all of them at NBC News...
...News executives, who have been beleaguered by budget cuts, controversy over a shift toward featurish news, and some highly publicized libel suits, were suddenly buoyant. They predicted that viewers would opt for the "stability" of Rather's broadcast. CBS is a little worried, however, about competition from PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer Report, which will expand to an hour on Sept. 5 and will run opposite network news in many cities. Said a CBS official: "Right now, we have the pointy-headed intellectuals and Volvo drivers. But if MacNeil/Lehrer starts doing better, more graphic television, it may win some...