Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea, of course, was to give the waiting millions back home an absolutely glowing account of Teng's triumphant journey. Accordingly, no inconvenient details or unpleasant incidents were to be photographed or written about. Violent protests by ultraradical Maoists in Washington's Lafayette Park and demonstrations by Taiwanese loyalists in Atlanta went unreported. With rigid discipline, the Chinese press portrayed Teng's host country as America the beautiful, a land apparently without poverty, blessedly free of political or racial strife, a perfect industrial model for the new China. As filler, Chinese TV stations even dipped into footage...
...trying to put together a magazine that can be both read and skimmed," says Gutwillig. Though the editors show a deft touch with short text blocks, few readers are going to be able to skim the three longish articles offered: a 5,400-word account by Syndicated Columnist Robert Novak of his November interview with China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, as well as the two cover stories on Rockefeller and Hearst...
...notorious workaholic, took time off from preparing for the current budget debate to watch the show. So did Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl. In all, an estimated 14 million West Germans, plus 3 million people in areas of East Germany tuned in last week for Holocaust, the American-made fictional account of Hitler's extermination of 6 million Jews. As nine regional television networks prepared to air the four-part docu-drama neo-Nazis torched an old synagogue in Essen and bombers demolished a television transmission tower near Koblenz and a telephone relay station near Münster. Newspapers carried...
Judging from the account in the Crimson's January 26 issue, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility seems a curious thing. The ACSR argues that introducing shareholder resolutions to companies operating in South Africa should be a "last resort" action because, in the words of one of its members, "More good comes from working with companies than in shooting off a rocket and having nothing left we can do." In order to identify the proper way to take such a momentous step as a shareholder resolution, the ACSR distinguishes between "action" and "information" resolutions. The ACSR considers the former, which...
...crisis point comes for Collins when he must close out one final account in order to regain his Man of the Year slot. Collins isn't worried. "Everyone's got a sob story," he tells his account. "Don't tell me about your deals. I know what you are. Your wife knows what you are. Your kids know what you are . . ." But how far can he push it? Collins goes to the man's house. The TV is blaring, Merv Griffith is ranting about Jacqueline Susanne, a great artist. He wanders through the suspiciously quiet house--a prefab chalet sitting...