Word: typescript
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half-inch above his bifocals. The effect is of a man always listening, or on the verge of some great surprise. It may be a habit nurtured by Viewpoint. His eyes would flit down to the typescript and stay too long. Then Helms would remember his 98,000 viewers and look up with a start. He does not smile easily, and his on-camera manner had the slightly sweaty earnestness that TV editorialists, North and South, exude by instinct. Unlike the rest of the breed, however, Helms was rarely bland...
...unveiled Jan. 23 in a televised presidential address to a joint session of Congress. Carter's foreign policy speech would ordinarily be part of the State of the Union message. However, the domestic sections of the constitutionally required annual assessment were scheduled to be sent, in typescript, up to Capitol Hill two days before the speech. By thus splitting the State of the Union address, Carter left no doubt that his new top priorities are foreign policy and defense. This amounts to an almost total reversal of the stress on domestic issues that characterized last year's State...