Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selecting the marshals, seniors rank their choices for first marshal. The "preferential" voting process takes into account not only how many "first choice" votes a candidate gets, but also the number and rank of that person as an alternate choice. Seniors can vote for as many candidates as they like...
...persons arrested under the IS in May and June of 1987, during a government crackdown on dissent. These arrests marked the first time in a decade that new arrests had been made under the IS, although one prisoner, Chia Thye Poh, has been held without trial since 1966 on account of his nonviolent political opinions. Chew Kheng Chuan and the others arrested with him in 1987 had never publicly supported the use of violence; rather, they were apparently arrested for their involvement in various church and student groups, community activities and peaceful political opposition...
There are strong arguments for both sides. Charting Rosenthal's rise at the Times from campus stringer at the City College of New York, Goulden provides a harsh account of his subject's personal life, including his prolonged extramarital affair with actress Katharine Balfour, whom, says Goulden, he promised to marry but eventually abandoned. Still, Fit to Print is at times as sympathetic as it is damning. Goulden clearly shares many of Rosenthal's conservative political views, and the author provides a sensitive account of the editor's painful childhood, during which Rosenthal lost his father and three sisters...
...generation that gave us the all-purpose jeer "It sucks" also gave us gonzo journalism, that self-consciously hip form of social commentary. The conventions are rather rigid. The reporter should work for a publication that is liberal in both its outlook and expense-account policies. He should know not only how to do light drugs and hold his liquor but also how to fold these manly vices into the copy...
...contrast, her portrayal of political and military events bears the stamp of an eyewitness account...