Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, buying a package of 39 contests over three years. ESPN's eight regular-season NFL telecasts last fall garnered the all-sports network its highest ratings ever. Ted Turner is negotiating with NBC to pick up a selection of Olympics events for his Atlanta-based superstation during the Summer Games in Seoul. With its growing financial clout, cable could one day bid for the rights to major events like the World Series -- though whether it could successfully take such events away from "free TV" is doubtful. "It will snow in July before you see the World Series...
...Soviets grew impatient with the slow pace of the negotiations in Geneva, so in the summer of 1986 they proposed higher-level talks. Paul Nitze, a State Department official and the Administration's elder statesman of arms control, led an American team that included Perle, Kampelman and others. Two sessions were held, in Moscow in August and in Washington in September. Both sides moved closer on details of a possible START agreement, but there was no progress...
...Washington, including a growing number of his fellow conservatives, wishes the Attorney General would quietly leave the field. But like General Ulysses Grant, a warrior Meese greatly admires, he seems determined, as Grant said down in Virginia, "to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." On that he is backed up so far by the President, who is being placed yet again in the awkward position of choosing between what is best for his presidency and protecting a loyal spear carrier...
...ever known. My mother saw him just once and tried to get him into bed with her"). Capote used such shockers to draw corresponding admissions from subjects he interviewed. Clarke's breezy and sympathetic account inevitably teems with them and is sure to keep tongues wagging busily through the summer...
...Putnam was co-sports editor of The Crimson from February of 1986 until January of 1987. He plans to live in Baltimore this summer and cheer on the Orioles...