Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Syrian President may have dealt a mortal blow to Arafat's leadership, but his brutal Realpolitik was not supported by any Arab government except Libya's. From Jordan and Egypt to Saudi Arabia and the gulf states, Arab governments were still voicing support for Arafat...
...giant (27 dailies) Newhouse chain and the liberal Post-Dispatch flagship of the Pulitzer group, are editorially separate. But they share advertising, circulation and business staffs under one of 24 newspaper joint operating agreements (JOA) approved by the U.S. Department of Justice. The papers also pool their profits except that there have been no profits for four of the past five years. Moreover Newhouse executives saw little prospect of improvement, and even less that the community-minded Pulitzer family would close the Post-Dispatch...
...provided by Newhouse and Pulitzer to negotiate the purchase of the Globe-Democrat before it is discontinued." A sale, however, would place the newspaper outside the joint operating agreement. Few observers expect any serious offer, for the paper would have no ensured means of printing and no substantial assets except its name and staff...
Regional holding companies. The 22 local Bell telephone operating companies will continue much as before, collecting revenues from Yellow Pages (around $3.6 billion at present), mailing bills to customers under the familiar names of Michigan Bell, New York Telephone, or whatever, and providing phone service in all states except Alaska and Hawaii, which have independent firms. But the 22 will be stitched together into huge new holding companies that are roughly equal in numbers of telephones and potential revenues. The holding companies, with small staffs at the top, will be free to tread where no phone company has ever gone...
...signs here point to easy moralism. Benevolent revolutionaries fighting fascism; idealistic rebels among the Sandinistas; U.S.-backed dictator pig Somoza; dreamy-eyed Western Press ready to report injustice and suffering--there's a lot it's hard to argue with. Except there's a catch. True, the filmmakers--led by director Roger Spottiswode--are sympathetic to the Left here, and with good cause. Even by the not-so-high standards of right-wing Latin American dictatorships, the government of Anastasio Somoza was a sorry lot, oozing corruption and brutality. And yet Under Fire is able to transcend a doctrinaire manifesto...