Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more serious but highly unlikely accusation also took wing briefly last week: that American reconnaissance aircraft, including AC-130 Spectre gunships, are flying regular spying missions over Nicaragua. A U.S. military man in Honduras, claiming access to classified material, told several journalists that the spy flights have been going on for several months under the direction of both the CIA and the US. military, and that the U.S. aircraft regularly penetrate about 100 miles into Nicaraguan airspace. He further claimed that most of the flights originated at Howard Air Force Base in Panama or at military bases...
...Scribner, whose authors have included Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the takeover will mean access to Macmillan's cash and marketing muscle but an end to the corporate independence of a firm that has helped to shape American literature. Wrote Hemingway in a 1947 letter after the death of Maxwell Perkins, his longtime Scribner editor: "One of my best and most loyal friends and wisest counselors in life as well as in writing is dead. But Charles Scribner's Sons are my publishers and I intend to publish with them for the rest of my life...
...cable proposals offer satellite channels, public access facilities and pay services such as Home Box Office, and all their prices fall within the same range...
What Gray offers is a prized Washington commodity called access. His specialty is the returned phone call. "A Bob Gray can get your case heard," says Jack Albertine, president of the American Business Conference. Declares the New Republic columnist TRB: "Gray's firm has broken new ground in the brazenness with which it presents itself as selling not legal services or even public relations, but connections pure and simple...
...There's something in it for the school" as well. Smith added, saying that K-School students will gain better access to summer jobs and internships with the Flynn administration than they had under Mayor Kevin H. White...