Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshmen, third baseman Scott Vierra and shortstop Tony (Coots) DiCesare, and a sophomore, second baseman Gaylord Lyman, will be worked around Bauer, manning whichever spots he doesn't. Bauer will probably open the season replacing the slick-fielding but weak-hitting (.170, two RBIs in 88 at bats) Lyman at second, and stay or move depending on Vierra's progress...
Since last December, few Americans have escaped the impassioned pitches from banks, brokerage houses and virtually all other kinds of financial institutions to sign up for tax-sheltered Individual Retirement Accounts. The Fidelity Group of mutual funds in Boston has produced a slick color film about its IRAs that is now playing at workplaces that range from factory floors to coal mines. In Birmingham, Ala., the Robinson-Humphrey Co. brokerage firm rented a hotel ballroom to tell people of the virtues of IRAs. Western Federal Savings & Loan Association in Los Angeles calls its retirement plans "fat-cat accounts" and promotes...
...pleading. Secretary of State Al Haig waved a photo spread from the French Figaro of the "most atrocious genocidal actions" in Nicaragua, which proved to be an old picture of something else. State then proudly produced a live Nicaraguan guerrilla captured in El Salvador who proved to be a slick young Marxist recanting all he had been expected to say. Still, the difficulty the Administration has in making, or selling, its case was evidenced in an ambitious prime-time CBS News report on Central America. CBS sent Mike Wallace to Nicaragua, Ed Rabel to Guatemala, and Bill Moyers...
Financed by expatriate oligarchs and rightists within the country, D'Aubuisson launched ARENA last spring. He talks about altering the junta's land reform and exterminating the Communists. By that he sometimes seems to mean anything from a Christian Democrat to a Marxist guerrilla. Aided by slick electioneering techniques, D'Aubuisson's party picked up momentum last month and emerged as the main challenger to Duarte's Christian Democrats. The candidate who has been so closely associated with violence was himself the victim of an assassination attempt in February. Sometimes D'Aubuisson will take...
...strong second, ABC a distant third. Suddenly, however, all bets were off. While a visibly uneasy Rather adjusted to his new role, viewers began to drift to other channels. The major gainer: ABC News, which, since Roone Arledge took over as president in 1977, has fashioned a slick, fast-paced style of reporting that bristles with the latest video electronics. With Anchor Peter Jennings reporting in by satellite every night from somewhere overseas, explains World News Tonight Executive Producer Jeff Gralnick, "the viewer thinks there is more reporting in depth...