Word: upstart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City is a tough town for newspaper competition, but an upstart called Street News has a lot going for it. The monthly newspaper features writers such as pop stars Patti LaBelle and Gloria Estefan, and ads from Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. Most important, the non-profit Street News has a highly motivated, 50-member sales staff: homeless people who work strictly on commission. To apply for the job, "you don't even need clean clothes," says SN editor Hutchinson Persons, a rock musician and founder of a coalition to help the homeless...
Brooks Chretien took the Army recruiting motto to heart, stopping 37 shots--including three five-on-three breakaways--against Cornell lifting the Cadets to a 2-0 upset win Saturday night. Chretien and his upstart teammates visit Bright Center tonight to face the winless Harvard men's hockey team...
...serious to the three leading contenders. If none of the candidates gets an absolute majority, the two leading candidates go forward from the first round of balloting on Nov. 15 to the runoff vote on Dec. 17. Within two days of Santos' announcement, newspaper polls showed the upstart candidate alternately in first and second place -- meaning he has a shot at making the final...
...former colleagues, Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger. Now he starts a Nixon trilogy that promises (threatens?) to be more exhaustive than Ambrose's. From Morris we learn details about Nixon's first political victims, Jerry Voorhis and Helen Gahagan Douglas (why Voorhis flubbed the debate with his upstart opponent, why prominent Democrats such as Joe and Jack Kennedy wanted Douglas defeated...
...when CBS became the first network to expand its 15- minute nightly newscast to half an hour, visionaries there and at rivals NBC and ABC began to talk of the logical next step: a full hour of news. A quarter-century later, they are still just talking. But upstart Cable News Network, the 24-hour information service that began in 1980 and reaches 52 million households, has taken that step. Last week CNN launched The World Today, a 60-minute newscast (airtime: 6 to 7 p.m. EST) that in much of the U.S. competes head to head with the shows...