Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they do not hang together, at least not completely. The smart newsman, as well as the intelligent reader, realizes that complete objectivity is indeed a fantasy, never to be attained. Anything a reporter writes is, in the true sens of the word, a "story," one person's account of a particular event, hardly to be trusted as Divine revelation. But at the same time, the reporter should recognize that objectivity, like perfection, is a fantasy worth pursuing, a goal that is not only noble, but practical. The more nearly objective, or more nearly perfect, his or her reporting...
...ones the government does not want. They are the almost 1,000 signatories of the Charter 77 dissident movement. But Charter 77 protest has declined considerably from the pitch of a year ago, chiefly as a result of continuing government repression. By Charter 77's own account, as many as 30,000 people have been rounded up since 1969 by the police and held for varying lengths of time, often in solitary confinement and with little food. In a truly Kafkaesque touch,* the victims are even billed for the cost of their imprisonment...
...correcting. It would boost U.S. exports by making them cheaper, cut imports by making them more expensive, and thus lower the trade deficit; then the dollar would rise again. There are some signs that the Administration's faith may not be in vain. For example, Japanese imports now account for only 9% of all cars sold in the U.S., down from 14% in January; but their prices have risen so much that the benefit in dollar terms is not readily apparent. The trade deficit declined from a monthly record $4.5 billion in February to a still very high...
...this reason, companies are sometimes accused of leaving New York City for racist reasons, even though some of the firms have increased their minority employment. The percentage of blacks and Hispanics working in office and clerical jobs at Olin, for example, has risen from 13% to 16%. Minorities account for a fifth of Stamford's population, and, says Champion International President Andrew Sigler: "We are lined up twelve-deep to hire every black kid who gets out of high school...
...years ago, Writer-Director Hill was responsible for a nice, tight-mouthed action film called Hard Times, which featured Charles Bronson as a bare-knuckle fighter scrapping to stay alive in Depression America. It gave a good account of a man trapped in brutality by bitter circumstances, and Hill may well have had some thing equally deterministic in mind when he set out. to make this study of how cop and criminal mentalities begin to merge when both have too long inhabited the demimonde. But in the earlier movie, the Depression offered some explanation for Branson's hardness. Here...