Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoot pictures of the search. Houston Bureau Chief George Taber went to Atlanta to talk with black leaders and with Ray's past and present lawyers. With files from other correspondents who interviewed sources in Boston, Chicago, Washington and Atlanta, Associate Editor James Atwater on Saturday wrote our account of how America's No. 1 prisoner escaped, and Senior Writer Ed Magnuson described the conspiracy theory that surrounds the assassination of Ray's victim, Martin Luther King Jr. Our Nation staff pieced together the Ray saga, as our World and International staffs began work on another late...
...gallon of gas, the Japanese-built Accord practically sells itself, and buyers around the country are willing to wait three to eight months for delivery. The Accord, however, is only the most spectacular example of the massive assault on the U.S. being made by imported cars, which now account for 21% of all new autos sold in the American market. In May foreign car sales surged to 220,000 units, the highest monthly level ever and a stunning 72% increase over the same period last year. By contrast, domestic car sales last month rose 5.1% over the previous...
...major recommendation--that evaluations of teaching ability accompany all nominations for tenure, promotion or appointment--was designed to provide more concrete incentives for investing time in teaching. Administrators claim that the committees who consider nominations for tenure or promotion are already beginning systematically to take teaching ability into account...
...parties. "If a person comes to my house for dinner, he has to return my call the next day," she says. A former $135-a-week secretary for the William Morris Agency in New York, Mengers now makes more than $300,000 a year, wields a $40,000 expense account, and has just about everything else she wants. Except George C. Scott as a client, and a body like Candice Bergen...
...there did remain a need for a fuller, totally accurate account of his life. As Nabokov told Field, "The first biography, no matter what comes after, casts a certain shadow on the others." It is characteristic of Nabokov's precision and fastidiousness that he would like to arrange those shadows. Says Field: "He was defending his life. I was defending my task and my independence...