Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...badly, rival organizations can score a coup as well as honor their craft by setting the record straight. Indeed, most irate critics of bias in the press cite stories from other parts of the press to prove their case. For readers of almost any ideological stripe, the perceived or actual bias of some publication can be offset by the availability of others. In soliciting subscriptions from new readers, the conservative weekly Human Events, for example, cites the "distortions of the major networks and your daily newspaper" and offers as an antidote its own pages...
...perhaps the most tasteless single snippet of this deathwatch footage, a CBS News crew taped the actual moment when Marine officials arrived to report to his family that Corporal Timothy Giblin of North Providence, R.I., had been killed. First shown on the CBS Morning News, the sequence was replayed that evening on, among others, the CBS-owned station in Chicago. As the tape finished, Anchor Jacobson apologized: "I am sorry, that film should not have been shown. It was inappropriate." NBC chose not to air similar footage its crew shot at a Marine's home in California. Said Anchor...
...play's limited action poses a comparable problem. Because so little of Old Acquaintance involves actual physical movement, the play depends heavily upon the strength of its dialogue to carry it through. Moreover, since much of the undercurrent of hostility and sarcasm is subtly woven into the script, delivery is often more important than substance...
Because the actual licensing process is controlled by the Commonwealth, the nine-member body asked City Councilor Russel B. Higley to draw up a "home rule" petition to be submitted to the state legislature for final approval...
...Such tax-cutting might have put Cambridge in difficult financial straits. Property in the city had not been revalued since the 1920s, and although the tax rate was high, most houses and businesses in the city were paying taxes on only a small percent of their actual market value...