Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge webs of strong nylon mesh, known as drift nets, can cover a slice of ocean up to 40 miles wide and 40 ft. deep. In North Pacific waters, fishermen from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan routinely let the nets float for as long as nine hours at night. They are intended to catch squid, but they also scoop up sea turtles, porpoises, seals, birds and various kinds of fish. Environmentalists call them killer nets and accuse those who use them of "strip-mining" the ocean...
...observes. "Writing a 600-word story seemed to be considered a whole week's work." Meyer Berger, the paper's star feature writer and house historian, put the situation in perspective: "Mister Ochs ((Adolph Ochs, publisher from 1896 to 1935)) always liked to have enough people around to cover the story when the Titanic sinks...
...COVER: The two giants of Communism witness a surge of people power...
PRESS: Scrambling to cover China's simmering crisis...
...Touvier case has raised embarrassing questions. Police followed his trail through several Catholic monasteries. Saint-Francois is run by right- wing followers of Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre, the schismatic bishop excommunicated last year. Asked Richard Wertenschlag, Grand Rabbi of Lyons: "How could ecclesiastical institutions give cover to one who committed crimes against humanity...