Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Warned Shannon's colleague William Safire: "The news has its own free market, and if editors put their notions of the public interest ahead of their responsibility to satisfy the public's interest, a vital freedom would be lost." Most of their peers would see no irreconcilable conflict between freedom and responsibility. Says Norman Isaacs: "There must be a sense of discretion, yet not to the point where we suppress news. The public wants every scrap of detail about someone deranged enough to take a pot shot at the President. We're going to cover it. There...
...these date back to the period under consideration; others arise from subsequent events and issues unrelated to this case ... If anything, each side has on occasion sought to undermine the other. Thus at the heart of the investigation we have a three-way rather than a two-way conflict...
...category, but, unlike the others of that crowd, he relied a great deal on the use of line in his works. Some of his early portraits fall into a category somewhere between drawings and paintings, and it was by producing a series of monotypes that he finally resolved the conflict between lines and areas of color in his work. Monotypes are made somewhat like lithographs, but only one image is produced, and, in Degas's work, it was then colored in with pastels. Lenore Hill has made studies of Degas's use of color in his monotypes, and is exhibiting...
...into each other and being discovered. For the Pentagon to oversee covert actions, as Harris suggests, would give the military a license to initiate paramilitary adventures. That might be a cure worse than the disease. Since clandestine operations are justifiable chiefly as a means of heading off full-scale conflict-what Colby calls "an alternative between diplomatic protest and sending in the Marines"-they should be kept separate from the Defense Department...
Large Subsidy. According to many experts, the Postal Service's chronic financial squeeze stems from a conflict of goals. Under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, the U.S.P.S. must operate as a public service, so postal authorities regard themselves as being obliged to continue performing many uneconomic operations, such as delivering mail door-to-door instead of at a central pickup point. Yet the law also insists that the Postal Service attempt to be selfsupporting. Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar is urging Congress to undertake a study to determine whether the U.S.P.S. needs an increase in the $920 million...