Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incident received national attention when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Sunday that Robert J. Myers, deputy commissioner of Social Security, had said the administration "changed" unemployment projections submitted in January by Eckstein's firm, Data Resources, Inc., to paint a more somber picture of the Social Security system's future...
Saying that the Post-Dispatch "is making something out of nothing as if we altered the books," Myers yesterday denied that the administration had ever attributed the figures directly to Data Resources...
...take an extremely pessimistic and also somewhat obsolete projection and then offer that as a best guess is really foolish," Eckstein said, according to the Post- Dispatch report. Eckstein could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...owned collective, the Associated Press, and its rival United Press International. At a relentless high-speed rate of 1,200 words a minute, 24 hours a day, the wire services supply the printed press, give radio disc jockeys their "rip and read" news, and alert television producers where to dispatch their camera crews...
...been suspended. Finally, Suzuki's apparently successful visit to Washington in May turned into an embarrassment after a joint communique referred for the first time to a U.S.-Japan "alliance," a phrase that to the Japanese connotes a military pact. Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito, who helped draft the dispatch, resigned...