Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Register staffer involved in preparing his paper's story has told colleagues the video was supplied by the Dukakis campaign. A reliable source says someone connected with the Dukakis campaign also gave the video to the Times. Craig Whitney, the Times's Washington bureau chief, insists that "nobody spoon-fed us the story," which he says resulted from "brilliant reporting" following up "several tips." Told about the alleged Dukakis campaign involvement, however, he says, "I just don't know if your information is correct...
...fairly liberal bunch, and we saw Biden trying to appropriate the liberal mantle with rhetorical tricks." Accusations of plagiarism thus hurt as almost nothing else could. They turned Biden's strong point, the passionate oratory that could bring a crowd to its feet, into a subject for ridicule and fed deep suspicions about his ability to be President...
...captured animals, which weigh up to 2,900 lbs., are rolled onto sleds, hoisted with ropes into a truck and transferred into stockade-like holding pens. Sometimes they revive unexpectedly; last year Coetsee was gored in the leg. But most can be hand fed in the holding pens within a few days. And rhino calves, Coetsee reports, like to be tickled...
...part paper copier and part telephone. On one end, a document is fed into the machine. The operator then uses the built-in telephone to dial the phone number of the receiving fax. When contact is made, an electronic scanner is activated. As it moves across the page, it converts the text, charts and pictures into electrical pulses that are carried over the telephone line. On the receiving end, the process is reversed. The machines can transmit everything from design plans to a picture of the Mona Lisa, in black-and-white at least...
...then switched to a job at a leather- processing factory. It was punishing work, and it meant a three-mile walk to and from the plant, but Cornell hardly missed a day. Though his family grew to include 13 children, he managed to keep them all clothed, warm and fed. They never took public aid. "You were ashamed to be on welfare then," recalls Minnie, who sometimes worked as a domestic. "There was a stigma attached to it." They lived in the central ward of Newark, among stable families headed by bus drivers, sanitation workers and teachers. If Cornell wasn...