Word: closedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Traditional reporters were aghast at Fowler's methods--the Obama meeting was closed to press (she got in as a donor), and Fowler did not identify herself when speaking to Clinton. But mainstream media had no problem treating the scoops as big news; if she had overheard both quotes in...
The fan zone had closed long before match time, sending streams of disappointed supporters back toward the Kärntner Strasse, where they had paraded in team colors all afternoon, the Austrians in red, the Germans in white, faces painted, voices and beers raised, not necessarily in that order. The...
The center remains closed to visitors, and might not open again until next year. Six pandas have been sent to another reserve in Sichuan, and eight have been sent to Beijing for an Olympics stay at the Beijing Zoo that was planned before the quake.
That iconoclastic take didn't convince everyone present. "The man's going to be remembered as a blithering idiot," said a distinguished British journalist, whose temper had not been sweetened by the elaborate security measures that inflicted a two-hour wait in a stifling room before the press conference began...
The new strategy also reflects how defense and security challenges have changed. Sarkozy said terrorism was the biggest threat to French security, and he pledged to create a leaner, more mobile and better-equipped army. He called for a doubling of the intelligence budget for new satellites, drones and other...