Word: tennessean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endorsed Al Gore, who was at the bottom of the paper's polls. But Editor Jim Squires is a close friend of Gore's and talks with him regularly. The relationship dates back to the early 1970s, when Gore worked for Squires as a cub reporter on the Nashville Tennessean. The top editors of the Atlanta Constitution and Orlando Sentinel also worked with Gore in Nashville, and both papers likewise endorsed...
...reporting this week's stories, Shannon joined U.S. Customs officers on a flight over the U.S.-Mexican border. She began her career in journalism as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean while a senior at Vanderbilt University, then attended Harvard in 1974 and 1975 as a Nieman fellow. After four years as the Tennessean's Washington correspondent, she joined Newsday and then Newsweek. Since last April, TIME has become the fortunate recipient of her investigative skills and long experience in tracking the activities of U.S. drug enforcers. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen and the War America...
...Labor. In the end, he enlisted as an Army reporter, and his father went down in defeat. "The combination of Viet Nam and his dad's losing really turned Al off politics," says his mother. Returning home in 1971, he became a reporter and editorial writer for the Nashville Tennessean. While working as a journalist, he enrolled at Vanderbilt, first as a theology student and then in law school...
Perhaps the most instructive information that has emerged recently, notes Nashville Tennessean Editor John Seigenthaler, is that "libel suits can be brought on because plaintiffs are infuriated by the cavalier treatment they get from the newspaper staff." What many libel plaintiffs really seek is an apology, a means of reply, or even just a respectful hearing -- which more of the press is grudgingly beginning to offer...
...symbolized the Administration's renewed vitality as much as Baker. The personable Tennessean with the easygoing manner was received almost as a savior in the siege-ridden White House. Baker quickly installed his own team and tried to thaw the frosty relations between the Administration and his old colleagues on Capitol Hill. "We were lucky the change in personnel came almost simultaneously with the Tower report and the speech," said a Reagan aide. "It enabled us to appear to get a completely fresh start...