Word: buts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The anonymous-quote disease is spreading to business reporting, where inside information is bound to be profitable to somebody. So when reporters are blocked by what they think to be a company's official evasions, they often seek the real dope from securities analysts and other market watchers, who...
The temptations to cheat with anonymous quotes are many, however, and skeptical readers invariably give them less weight. In the wrong reporter's hands, the use of anonymous quotes can be a lazy device, enabling him to imply that he has talked to a higher authority than he really...
Washington is full of names that make news and of news that is made anonymously by the very same people. This arrangement, convenient to all sides, can also be worrisome. Much of the punditry of Washington columnists and the daily run of informed content in newspapers, newsmagazines and on the...
Insiders get good at deciding who could have said what, particularly when anonymity operates by understood code names: a "senior State Department official aboard the Secretary's plane" used to mean Henry Kissinger, and now means Cyrus Vance. A diplomat or bureaucrat can privately get across his side of...
Army won the two freestyle sprint races, but even these events produced a bright spot for the Crimson.