Word: broadcast
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...first public warning was a scratchy cough, broadcast live to the world, followed by a request for water. In the gilded British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the President of the United States finally stood on a global stage, a new leader introducing a new American vision for the world. But he sounded a bit off, his voice pitched, parched, nasal. At the start of his first overseas trip as President, Barack Obama had come down with a cold...
...design also earned Erkoçu a commission for the An-Nasr Mosque in Rotterdam, where again he is tweaking tradition. An-Nasr's minaret will be glass - transparent and subtle, rather than dominating the skyline. The call to prayer will be broadcast in lights, pulsating to the rhythm of the muezzin's voice. Once the mosque is built, Erkoçu hopes Rotterdam's citizens will see the call to prayer beamed across the sky. Muslims will be able to look up and, no matter where they are in the city, turn their thoughts to prayer...
...people outside a little-used military facility in the Turkish town of Silopi. The digger's engine hums. In a minute it will roll forward, past the grieving relatives dressed in their Sunday best, past the chain-smoking lawyers in somber suits, past blank-faced sentries and a television broadcast van beaming pictures around the country, and head on into one of the most controversial issues in Turkey's murky recent history...
...state seems to be shaking its hard-line stance. In January, it launched a Kurdish-language television station with a flashy Kurdish singer as main billing. "The state is recognizing, in effect, that Kurdish is a language and that it can be used to deliver a public service like broadcast," says Ahmet Birsin, of Gun TV, a local station...
...then and remains still one of the most distinctive sign-offs in broadcast journalism: "Irving R. Levine, NBC News." That was the signature of my colleague and friend, who was as precise in his reporting and in his personal style as the neat knot on his trademark bow tie. He seldom removed his suit jacket, and he always slipped on white cotton gloves when reading a newspaper so the ink wouldn't stain his hands...