Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When these political-action committees give money," Bob Dole once said, "they expect something in return other than good government." The Kansas Senator may have been more candid than he intended. In a new book, The Best Congress Money Can Buy (Pantheon; $18.95), the veteran muckraker and anti-PAC crusader Philip M. Stern contends that special-interest donations have often been used to purchase crucial votes from U.S. legislators. Citing reports in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, Stern accuses several lawmakers of flip-flopping on issues after they received big campaign contributions. Others, he says, have been handsomely rewarded...
...computer chips and high-tech features, but each also sports a new, high-tech look, one that owes more to the smooth curves of the video camcorder than to the basic rectangular design that has dominated 35-mm cameras since the 1924 Leica Model "A." Says Yasuhiko Nakayama, the veteran video-camera designer who created the Chinon Genesis: "We wanted a unique design concept to match the new type of camera...
...editor of the gritty New York Post wears white linen skirts, a string of pearls and pink nail polish, and she comes from Philadelphia's genteel Main Line. Last week, after announcing the appointment of Magazine Veteran Jane Amsterdam to the top slot at one of the last bastions of no-holds-barred, spit-in-the-eye tabloid journalism, the Post's owner, Real Estate Magnate Peter Kalikow, presented her with a T shirt emblazoned with the paper's now legendary April 15, 1983, headline HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR. As earthy Post newsroom veterans (uncomfortably adorned in ties...
...backgrounds of both Amsterdam and Price, a founder of the aggressively upscale Avenue magazine, many observers believe Amsterdam's appointment confirms suspicions that the Post will now be aiming its sights on the Chablis-and-Brie set. Amsterdam talks about improving business coverage, and there are reports that veteran magazine writers such as Dominick Dunne, Pete Hamill and Mimi Sheraton have been invited to write for the paper...
...tried unsuccessfully to move Sandy Socolow, the respected former executive producer of the CBS Evening News, from the London bureau to Tel Aviv. The attempt, which Socolow balked at, "left a bitter taste" with staffers, who saw it as "an effort to squeeze out of CBS News a respected veteran whose principal sin was a close friendship with Walter Cronkite." Joyce, typically, describes the incident in a short paragraph and gives no inkling of its repercussions...