Word: expressions
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Some experts express reservations about the new research. Recent surveys of black elementary and high school children, they point out, show racial pride is improving. Still, says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., "for those who are concerned about the future and progress, the studies remind us there is still a lot of work we have to do together...
Five months before the Iowa caucuses, the campaign remains eerily formless and wide open. A TIME poll finds that many Democrats express doubts about the party' s candidates, while George Bush has regained lost ground among Republicans. -- Ultraconservatives pummel the President. -- In Pennsylvania, a controversial search for a rape suspect touches off a civil rights flap...
India's press is among the freest in the world, but it did not seem that way last week. In the New Delhi editorial office of the Indian Express, the country's largest English-language daily, tax agents backed by police burst in and seized documents. The purported aim of their search: evidence of customs- duties violations...
Editor Arun Shourie asserted that the real goal was to make an example of the paper in order to "silence the rest of the press." Recent Express editorials have battered Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and the paper's reports on corruption have forced the resignation of a close Gandhi associate in Parliament. The government said the raid found that the Express had evaded $257,000 in customs duties. The paper called the charges "lies" and said it would fight in court...
...appeal of fax is speed and cost. Federal Express charges about $12 to deliver a one-page letter overnight. The same letter can be faxed in a matter of seconds for less than 50 cents. Telex also pales by comparison. To telex a document, a keyboard operator must retype it at a computer terminal before sending it to its destination. This can take an hour or more and cost about $5 for 50 words. With a fax, people can simply send a "picture" of the text. Says Mark Winther, an electronics analyst at Manhattan-based Link Resources: "The growth...