Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...image makers began tinkering with Rather's dress and demeanor. Early on, they put him in sweaters in an effort to soften his intensity. For a while, Rather tried hard to be warm and homespun, his writing full of purple prose and corny puns. (Before the start of the Reykjavik summit, he announced, "Ready, set, Gorbachev.") Later he reverted, with equal strain, to a straitlaced, sober, almost glum delivery...
...awkward TV appearances. Ailes spent a week priming Bush for his announcement speech and was with Bush before the Rather interview, which Ailes had insisted be live, and suggested the cool counterpunch about Rather's walkout. "If a reporter is bullying you, the viewers at home may start to root for you," Ailes advises in his book You Are the Message. "The more inflammatory the journalist, the cooler you should...
...Texas TV stations during the Super Bowl, Connally says that though he and his wife Nellie "worked hard all of our lives . . . things haven't quite worked out like we'd planned. But that's all right," he drawls, "because there's no better place than Texas to start over and save a little...
...abundance last week. Public Service of New Hampshire, owner of the largest single stake in Seabrook, a 35.6% share, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, becoming the first major investor-owned utility to do so since the Depression. Though Seabrook was ready to run by the fall of 1986, its start-up has been delayed by political and public opposition. The bankruptcy will shelter the utility from creditors while its management reorganizes the company and pursues its goal of getting Seabrook switched...
...billion personal-computer market. Today, IBM's share has shrunk to less than 30% as its recent models have suffered assaults from competing formats like Apple's versatile Macintosh. IBM's newest line of personal computers, the Personal System/2, got off to an initially promising start after its introduction last April, selling 1 million units within seven months. But IBM fears a repeat of the past when it was tripped up by nimble copycat companies that produced lower-cost knockoffs of its first line...