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...during the lobster shift), officials of all three networks said they would stress accuracy over speed on Election Night. NBC, for example, forbade staff members to tell its vote analysts about any competitors' returns, for fear of hastening NBC projections. Somewhere along the way, however, caution failed to thwart competitiveness. When Sheehan learned that CBS had awarded Pennsylvania to Carter, he phoned an ABC analyst and said, "CBS just called Pennsylvania and it looks good." CBS's early boldness eventually backfired; the network had to retract a projection of a Carter win in Oregon. Said NBC Executive Producer...
According to the marvelously clever, yet touching script for the new $24 million film version of King Kong, this starkly poetic, spookily enigmatic warning was found-drawn in blood, naturally-on the thwart of an empty lifeboat discovered adrift in the South Pacific in 1749. Next to it, natch, there was a "likeness of some huge slouchy humanoid thing...
...assumed control of his underworld clan in 1957 after the assassination of its boss, Albert Anastasia, in the barbershop of the Park-Sheraton Hotel. Although the Federal Government tried to deport Gambino for ten years, a series of heart attacks enabled him to successfully thwart expulsion to Italy...
Before the half mercifully ended, the 'Cliffe net minder had to thwart two more scoring bids...
First, powerful lobbies attempt to thwart all efforts to get major tax reform through Congress, even though nearly everyone agrees that today's system bad ly needs a total overhaul. Second, re form makes taxpayers themselves uneasy because they are unwilling to give up the certainty of a deduction in return for only a promise to lower tax rates. In Federal Tax Reform: The Impossible Dream ?, Tax Experts George F. Break and Joseph A. Pechman observed: "Circumventing this dilemma is a task worthy of a Solomon...