Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...capture those people, the has-beens, stillares, will-bes and never-weres spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, degrade themselves in public, shake the hands of people they don't know or care to know, plaster friendly if sickly grins on their faces and fit themselves into a mold designed to "maximize" appeal. Little is sacred, because though the sacrifices are great, the reward--a pot of political gold--casts a spell not easily resisted...
...received big-money offers from all three major networks, and the promise of Walter Cronkite's job if he would stay with CBS. She also knew, from her talks with Rather himself, that the newsman hoped to choose from among the offers by last Wednesday. "What I didn't know, and what had me pacing the floors that day, was how Rather would decide," says Cronin. "And he didn't know that himself, even when he called me at 11 o'clock that night." No matter. Rather's very indecision underscored the point of Cronin's extensive reporting for this...
...other aides anxiously await the latest comments from voters phoned by Carter volunteers in New Hampshire. Increasingly, people express their displeasure over Carter's absence. But Carter refuses to budge from Washington until the hostages are released. The President said last week, "I want the world to know that I am not going to resume business as usual until our hostages are back here...
...Three years of experience in this office is inevitably going to pay off," says Jimmy Carter himself. He knows whom to consult on what within this country, which foreign leaders want to be led or consulted or pampered. "We know better how to use the public education process," he continues. And this skill has helped him to be increasingly persistent and consistent in policy. Carter feels that Congress now better comprehends the challenges. "The leaks are down," he says-no small aid in national security planning. That yields a freedom of thought and discussion backstage that steadies policy. The support...
Coach Brooks pulled out Goalie Jim Craig and attacked with six men. They were aided in planning their strategy by a typical example of Yankee know-how: armed with a walkie-talkie, an aide was up in the stands, radioing weaknesses he spotted in the Swedish defense to an assistant coach, who was on the bench with Brooks. With only 27 sec. to play, Bill Baker drilled home a 55-ft. slapshot to tie the game...