Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political center and sold the idea of a massively expensive media buy that kept Democrats scrambling to pay the bills (see above: Al Gore, problems of). But just as Morris emerged on the cover of TIME and the President headed for his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, the supermarket tabloid Star pushed the plunger on the dynamite Morris rested upon. A paid companion told just how she had companioned Morris in his Washington hotel suite and played footsie with his face. Later it came to light that he had fathered a daughter by a woman in Texas, news that...
...fever pitch last November when Chuck Shramek, an amateur astronomer based in Houston, Texas, announced on a nationwide radio talk show that he had photographed a "Saturn-like object" that seemed to be following in Hale-Bopp's wake. Shramek's breathless claim elevated Hale-Bopp fantasies from supermarket tabloids to the mainstream press and generated thousands of posts to message boards and astronomy home pages on the Internet. One fast-spreading rumor had it that the object was an alien spacecraft four times the size of Earth...
Those in TV news are often suspicious of outsiders, but Westin gets good initial marks from ABC staff members. He has been a vocal defender of the news division in legal matters, like the recent battle against the Food Lion supermarket chain over a PrimeTime Live hidden-camera report on allegedly unsanitary practices. "He's a really strong supporter of the division, including financially, which is where the real test is," says political analyst Jeff Greenfield. "I like him enormously," says special correspondent Cokie Roberts, who got to know Westin while he was ABC's Washington-based counsel. "He respects...
...resumes. Perhaps divulging anything more intimate would be a bad career move. Maybe sharing an emotion or two might jeopardize our chances at becoming president or winning a Nobel or Pulitzer. After all, having anything beyond our curricula vitae renders us vulnerable. But vulnerable to what? Will the supermarket tabloids really lambaste us for disclosing to a study partner how our day was? Are we honestly so important that we must protect our egos at the expense of that which makes us human...
...tapped again. During his trip last week to the Los Angeles meeting of the big-spending afl-cio, where he promised new rules requiring all businesses that contract with the Federal Government to meet fair-labor standards, Gore made time for private chats with two significant Democratic Party supporters: supermarket mogul Ronald Burkle and real estate investor Stanley Hirsh. "It's breathtaking how fast and aggressively he's moving," says a Democratic stalwart. Though Gore's aides insist he wasn't asking for donations on this visit, they admit he was laying the basis for a squeeze this year...