Word: clock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guided by an inner clock that sometimes frustrates his aides, Bush decides at his own speed and rarely looks back in doubt later...
...flag burning. "I've been accused of draping myself in the flag for a political reason," he told TIME in an unprompted aside. "That's not why I proposed a constitutional amendment. And now I'm reading that people aren't interested in that ((issue)) anymore. Well, my ((internal)) clock tells me that's wrong, and I don't need ((Republican pollster)) Bob Teeter to show me a poll to make me convinced it's wrong." Although Bush insists that he does not steer his policies by the polls, he loves to use survey data to silence skeptics. After...
...sooner had the videotape of Higgins' body been released to news agencies in Beirut than a countdown began toward the execution of Cicippio, 58, kidnaped three years ago from the campus of the American University of Beirut. Cicippio's last-minute reprieve was accompanied by a threat that the clock could be set ticking again. His captors demanded that Israel free not only Obeid but also unspecified Palestinians and Lebanese guerrillas. "Acceptance should be announced within days," they added. "Otherwise the initiative will be considered canceled...
Behind the scenes, the Administration was working in a crisis mode. In private Bush described himself as going through "the most difficult time of my presidency," and by week's end the strain in his face was pronounced. To save Cicippio, the State Department set up a round-the-clock hostage task force, while the White House launched a diplomatic rescue effort that one U.S. envoy called "a full-court press on everybody we know." Characteristically, the President worked the phone with the heads of state of most European allies and nations in the Middle East -- with the notable exception...
...anchor with Kuralt and later Bill Kurtis, Sawyer helped boost the ratings for the No. 3-ranked morning show to their highest levels ever. Colleagues were impressed by her dedication. "She would show up at 2 o'clock in the morning and write her own copy," recalls a producer. "This was unheard of. There was no way you could not respect her." But she soon grew dissatisfied with the low priority the Morning News was given at the network and with the trivia she was sometimes forced to handle. "I thought this is not really what I should be doing...