Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Gannett shareholders trooped into the Capital Hilton ballroom in Washington last week for the company's annual meeting, they expected a lively session. Only one day before, Gannett had agreed to buy Louisville's Pulitzer Prize-winning Courier-Journal and Times for about $300 million, outbidding both the Washington Post Co. and Chicago's Tribune Co. Within the past year, the Arlington, Va.-based media giant had acquired two other major newspaper companies that had come up for sale: the Detroit News and the Des Moines Register (total price: $917 million). "It's a little like winning the Triple...
...entering the Senate chamber shortly before 4 p.m. last Wednesday, White House Courier Tim Saunders suddenly became the Invisible Man. Not that anyone actually failed to see him, or to guess what he was carrying in a manila envelope decorated with the White House seal. With Saunders in plain view, Majority Leader Robert Dole archly informed fellow Senators that Ronald Reagan had vetoed an attempt by Congress to block a sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, and * "somewhere there is a messenger who has that information." But the moment Saunders' presence was officially acknowledged, the veto would become the pending...
Albright dashed to the streetcar, flung his long frame on board and beat the courier to the White House, where Legislative Clerk Maurice Latta was also moved by his enthusiasm and promised to slip the bill into the President's night papers and even try to rescue the pen used in signing. A few hours later, Albright picked up a phone and heard the magic words: "The President signed the bill...
Calling themselves Sperm Busters, the Thayer South residents yesterday established a "condom courier service...
...Hammer, a Czech-born composer, using sounds stored in a digital computer synthesizer. Working in a state-of-the-art studio in his 150- year-old colonial home near Brewster, N.Y., Hammer composes the score for each episode from a rough cut sent to him by network courier. That is another break with TV tradition. "The old style was for the composer to sit in production meetings, and someone would say, 'Let's put something here,' or 'Let's put something there,' " says Hammer. "We have managed to bypass all that. The only occasional talk with Michael is when...