Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Tracking races for 435 House seats, 34 senatorial slots and 13 governorships, as well as 51 separate presidential sprints in some 175,000 voting precincts, is an awesome task for any journalist. But things have changed quite a bit since the stone age days of 1960, when all through Election Night at NBC the latest figures were hauled up to the Huntley-Brinkley anchor booth in a wicker basket on a rope...
...state, but they can also put questions to the computer, which has been programmed with a vast library of CBS research. Some have taken to the new futuristic consoles more readily than others: Dan Rather, reportedly, revels in them, spending idle hours punching up new information. Cronkite seems a bit wary, though he says, "It sure beats all that paper piling up all night long...
...fact, however, the economy is nowhere nearly so healthy as such statistics suggest. Observes Irwin Kellner, chief economist for New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust, in a grimly appropriate metaphor: "Even someone who falls off a 15-story building bounces a little bit when he hits the sidewalk...
Rarely has any performer, this side of a porn movie, been subjected to as many ugly and degrading moments in the course of a role. She endures them all without visible signs of embarrassment and even manages to act a bit. But hers is a lost cause. And this is a movie that deserves to disappear as quickly as possible. By Richard Schickel
Some of the ratings are a bit obvious. Since the average daily population of a cemetery, not to mention the total daily population and the peak instant population, are low, the department rated it the most desirable non-profit use for a neighborhood...