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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most journalists occasionally encounter what might be called the Insider's Lament. Anywhere non-newsies can corner them, someone carps along this line: "Dammit, on subjects I'm personally involved in, you guys often get it wrong." The critic usually adds that if he had been consulted, all would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dog-Bites-Dog | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Political bias is only one element of the unchecked-error syndrome. Another could be labeled the pseudoauthoritative dodge. Washingtonian, a prosperous, glossy monthly, does an annual salary survey. This fall's version, listing hundreds of names linked to specific monetary figures, appears to be based on serious research. Eight TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dog-Bites-Dog | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

That exploratory phone call, of course, is no guarantee of accuracy. New York magazine inquired whether I had reviewed a manuscript for possible serialization in TIME. Yes, I had; no, we wouldn't. But the item relating this routine transaction attributed a direct quote to me ostensibly delivered to "colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dog-Bites-Dog | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

The Salinas Valley town of Hollister (pop. 11,500) experiences temblors so frequently that some of the townspeople proudly call it the Earthquake Capital of the World. At 5:04 p.m., 19-year-old Albert Valles was working out in a gym when he felt the building begin to shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

It was in such terrifying, surrealistic scenes that Northern Californians who chanced to be in the wrong place at 5:04 p.m. last Tuesday were jolted into an awful realization: a major earthquake had struck the Bay Area and its 6 million residents at rush hour. In 15 interminable seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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