1.   On Wednesday he invited network news anchors to lunch for a private chat over a mixed grill and broccoli.

2.   An act aimed at tearing the country apart had managed, with some assistance from the network anchors, those personifications of national concern, to bring people together.

3.   As the returns came in from the New Hampshire primary last Tuesday, Buchanan was watching CBS News when network anchor Dan Rather declared him the winner.

4.   As the day of death and destruction went on, network anchors were beginning to weigh the long-term consequences of this shattering day.

5.   As they have been throughout the crisis, network anchors were respectful.

6.   At their desks in New York, the network anchors tried to aerate the on-the-scene reports from Oklahoma City affiliates with cautions of how much was not known.

7.   But how many network news anchors make any effort to be objective?

8.   But the Bermans say they have been forbidden to use the word in many television interviews, including recent ones with network anchors Dan Rather and Peter Jennings.

9.   By comparison, a network news anchor like Peter Jennings of ABC is typically on just two and a half hours a week.

10.   Focus groups, straw polls and network anchors would have joined to sink a modern-day Lincoln before the very first primary.