Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eye It Carefully. A press release from "CBS News" trumpeted a 60 Minutes investigation: Japanese conglomerates now have the technology to duplicate U.S. currency and produce credit cards that allow "unlimited charges without having to pay the resulting bill." A network spokesman called the fake release the product of a "warped mind...
Other stories have been more eye-opening, like an article reporting on the campaign by a younger generation of gay militants to label themselves "queers." Says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Gannett Foundation Media Center: "The Times has been ahead of the pack recently in bringing more soft news and how-to stories, plus adding a touch of tabloid sensationalism." Other newspeople are more judgmental. Says a Washington bureau chief: "The front page isn't the gauge of important news that it used...
...American life. Country (the Ewing home at Southfork Ranch) fought with city (the Ewing Oil building in downtown Dallas). Cowboys corralled oil slickers. Sons (J.R. and Bobby) double-crossed each other for their father's love. Daughters-in-law ached for the approval of a family that would always eye them suspiciously. Add myriad business rivals, mistresses, children and newly discovered relatives, and the conflict could keep roiling in a never-ending story, with cunning variations on the time-honored themes of sex, money, power and family...
...become a second Gaza Strip, home to generations of embittered, stateless and disruptive exiles. Washington and London hope to turn over protection of the refugee settlements to a United Nations peacekeeping force in one to three months, and eventually to resettle the Kurds in their old homes under the eye of U.N. observers...
Also, companies should keep an eye on salary or job inequities which might create ill feeling between workers and management, Erkut said...