Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camera that journalistic integrity required them to report promptly whatever they knew about election trends. "If we have the information, we should put it on the air," said Lane Venardos, executive producer of the CBS Evening News. Yet exit polls, perhaps as much as debates and campaign commercials, have thrust TV into the political process. NBC'S early call in 1980 was said to have discouraged voting and thus affected the outcome of close races on the West Coast. This year a House subcommittee grilled TV executives about the practice, and both the House and the Senate passed nonbinding...
Although wage increases were not the major thrust of the strike, the contract guarantees a 2 percent minimum wage increase for non gratuity workers--bartenders and cooks--after three years of employment...
...Nicaragua on terrorist tactics surfaced last month, the White House promised that any official involved in its development or approval would be dismissed. But in a letter to members of the House and Senate Intelligence committees that was made public last week, CIA Director William Casey insisted that the thrust of the manual had been misinterpreted, and he attempted to justify its overall purpose. "The emphasis is on education," Casey wrote, "not on turning a town into a battlefield...
...meet the press. "He is totally absorbed in nursing this child," explained Surgeon Hinshaw. "He is not a publicity seeker, and he is very sensitive about this." The pressure on Bailey and his colleagues drew understanding from another surgeon who knows what it is like to have microphones continually thrust at his face. "I really have sympathy with what they're going through," said Dr. William DeVries, who had been Barney Clark's surgeon...
...hiring, salary and tenure. It is, in all, a challenging document, designed to generate the same kind of debate and groundswell of reform that has followed the earlier study on schools. Chairman Mortimer, for one, is confident the reforms will come. "This is the year the spotlight gets thrust on higher education," he says. "It's almost a window of opportunity." -By Ezra Bowen...