Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process sometimes starts before the story. John Kolesar, now managing editor of the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J., recalls sitting on a committee at the Bergen Record to draw up a list of criteria for selecting projects that could win a Pulitzer. The Miami Herald a few years ago dispatched an editor to Manhattan to check out winning entries and how they were packaged. The choice of a hot subject can be helpful; AIDS and TV evangelists were popular this year. Prizemanship strategies have even built up a genre of newspaper writing: the exhaustive multi-part investigation...
Every unhappy family may be unhappy in its own way, but few families have had their woes so publicly aired as the Binghams of Kentucky. For nearly seven decades, the Bingham clan owned and ran a media plantation that eventually included the Louisville Times and Courier-Journal, a local TV station and two radio stations. Famous in their own state, the Binghams were something less than household names around the country. But then came that chilly January day in 1986 when the 79-year-old patriarch, Barry Bingham Sr., announced that he was selling the business because of incessant bickering...
...permits. Mail Boxes Etc., the largest franchise chain of private postal outlets, with some 600 locations in 40 states, sells stamps, wraps packages, rents mailboxes and transmits copies of documents over telephone lines with facsimile machines. In the lucrative overnight-delivery market, United Parcel Service, Federal Express, Purolator Courier and other companies have claimed about 90% of the business...
...first shipments of cocaine to the U.S. were smuggled in suitcases; he even used his mother as a courier. From humble beginnings as a small-time pot dealer in New York in the early 1970s, Carlos Lehder Rivas rose to become a pivotal figure in the international drug trade, commanding a squadron of | airplanes that is said to have brought 15 tons of coke into the U.S. every month. Last week the onetime drug lord went on trial in a heavily guarded federal courthouse in Jacksonville...
...embassy in Moscow last March, horrified security officials reacted swiftly. Certain that two Marine guards had let Soviet agents prowl through the building and plant listening devices, authorities closed the electronically shielded meeting-room "bubble," tore out cryptographic and other communications gear and sent messages to Washington by courier through Frankfurt. Those steps, as well as a global investigation of the Marine guard force, have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 million. But last week one senior Marine officer concluded that the alleged penetration of the embassy "just didn't happen...