Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Gabor, whose first choice is not a candidate this time: "Nixon would know how to deal with the Iranian militants: get a million dollars baksheesh and pay them off. They steal a ring off your ringer and sell it back to you. Nixon understands...
Having made himself South Korea's best - and only - bet since Park's death, Chun is virtually assured of winning the presidency in March. Said one foreign businessman in Seoul after the constitutional vote: "The people know Chun and his government mean business. And you can't gain any thing by opposing them...
...Winners should be described as 'estimated winners.' Avoid any reference to 'calling' races or 'declaring' winners. Do not refer to estimates as 'projections.' " How will the computer know what "estimates" to make? Mitofsky, a former Census Bureau statistician, has selected 4,000 key precincts nationwide to show him what is happening in each state. A CBS employee in each of those precincts will phone in results to a bank of computer-terminal operators in a soon-to-be demolished Manhattan warehouse. If this information seems to add up to a clear victory...
...will a voter know if he or she lives in a key precinct? One way is to ask poll workers if there is anyone from a network (CBS or NBC) or from the League of Women Voters (ABC) lurking around. In Atlanta, for instance, CBS will station vote reporters in nine precincts. They range from the all-black, heavily Democratic, low-income Precinct 10-T, whose voters will cast their ballots at Turner High School near the Perry Homes Public Housing Project, to Precinct 8-E, with polls at the Margaret Mitchell School on Atlanta's affluent northwest side...
Unlike his competitors at NBC and ABC, Mitofsky picks his sample precincts on a strictly statistical basis. Says he: "I don't believe in expert advice and hunches. All I want to know is how many people live there, which party did they support last time around and which county is it in? If my group of precincts reflects these factors in a state, then we will have a pretty good picture of how that state is voting." Mitofsky has made only one bad call at CBS in 13 years: Ford, not Carter, ended up winning Oregon...