Word: status
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news's most exclusive fraternity. Although hardly a new face (at 47, he has logged 24 years in the business, the past eight anchoring at CNN), Shaw has come to personify CNN's transformation from the "Chicken Noodle Network" to a respected competitor of ABC, CBS and NBC. That status seemed to become official last December, when Shaw joined the three network anchors for a nationally televised interview with President Reagan, from the Oval Office, on the eve of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to the U.S. Last month the anchor turned up as one of half a dozen...
...flip side of Dole's Iowa victory was Vice President George Bush's defeat. Despite his status as Reagan's heir apparent, the advantages of office and more than $5 million in campaign funds, Bush finished a distant third, with a slim 19% of the vote. Pat Robertson, the former religious broadcaster who has never held public office, stunned the Republican establishment with 25% of the vote and a second-place finish, emerging as a powerful and potentially disruptive force...
...services spring from what Lapham calls the "equestrian class," which has multiplied impressively during the decades of postwar American prosperity and which "comprises all those who can afford to ride rather than walk and who can buy any or all of the baubles that constitute the proofs of social status. As with the ancient Romans, the rank is for sale...
Robert L. Henry '90, a member of the Foundation, said a student committee chose Blades to host the event because he was "active in the community, had celebrity status, and was someone who students wanted to see." The artist will spend Friday night at Cabot House, and will eat two meals with students picked by the Cabot masters and Foundation members...
...plot sounds vaguely like a dilemma from an episode of Webster or Punky Brewster. But as silly as this musical may seem, the underlying message is well worth repeating in out increasingly status-conscious society...