Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.--Williams College students, whose rooms and beds once were tidied up daily by maids, must now tend to the chores themselves because school officials have dumped the maid service...
...Secretary of State, George Shultz has been pinned down in his Washington office by the crossfire in Lebanon. "I can't remember when I last spent so long in the same time zone," jokes the former globetrotting corporate executive. Finally, last week, he found a way to tend to the simmering dilemmas of East-West relationships as well as the pressing problems of the Middle East while staying close to home. At the United Nations to address the 37th session of the General Assembly, Shultz conducted a diplomatic shuttle among more than 30 foreign ministers-all without leaving Manhattan...
...while viewing, revved up like the roadsters on The Dukes of Hazzard when they are not? As for parents, many of the same symptoms apply. Adults, however, are far more apt than children to deceive themselves about their own TV compulsion. Like alcoholics, says Wilkins, adults hooked on TV tend to underestimate their dependency. Wilkins' method of kicking the habit is like the old-fashioned way of losing weight: eating less. The first step, as with overcoming any addiction, is mustering the will to do so. During the first week of her four-week program, she advises keeping...
...those characteristics freely. They have been pointed out to me often enough to convince me. I can think on my feet. A poll of oldtime White House correspondents ranked me first in handling press conferences. It is hard to express effectively all sides of a complicated issue, and I tend to do that. It is much easier to take one simplistic side of an issue and express it clearly. Reagan does that very well. But there is no way in the long run to avoid the complexity of complex issues...
...that could embarrass their Administrations; CBS Reporter Lesley Stahl overheard, and promptly duplicated, Woodruffs exclusive on the appointment of Shirley Hufstedler as the first Cabinet-level Secretary of Education in 1979. The news items were fleeting, but the lesson lasted. Says Woodruff: "As with most competitive pursuits, nice reporters tend to finish last." Woodruff has also learned from her husband Albert Hunt, the Wall Street Journal's highly respected congressional reporter, though he and she hardly have an open-notebook policy. Last year Hunt hoarded background information he gleaned from Budget Director David Stockman, while Woodruff tried vainly...