Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most enterprising is Florida's Fort Myers News-Press (circ. 64,200), which sends its reporters on what it calls "guerrilla raids" into the news territories of bigger papers-to cover racial unrest in Miami, for example, or terrorism in Central America. News-Press investigative reports led to the cancellation of a $1 million road-and-bridge project that would have benefited only the developer of a proposed housing tract, and to the conviction of a county commissioner for accepting a bribe in the form of services from prostitutes. News-Press editors provide crisp color and clear maps...
...French Foreign Legion fort in Ati, a Scottish legionnaire checks travel documents. Of the twelve robed passengers in our truck, he asks, "Who are all those guys with spears? Are they O.K.?" Before an excellent lunch, served on fine linen, the local legion commander says, "A Goran soldier can go 48 hours without water and a week without food. That's more than our boys can do." That night at a military outpost in Oum-Hadjer, a civil servant observes, "This war started out with cavalry and scimitars. Now it is all Soviet rocket launchers, recoilless rifles and antitank...
...flash of fresh fluorescence? Do they want the newly refined chic of Montana, played down and spiffed up like cotillion costumes for postpunk debs? Or the electric, eclectic, aggressively youthful chic of Jean-Paul Gaultier? Or the Olympian chic of Saint Laurent? And-oh, yes. Is Fort Worth really ready for Versace...
Popular revulsion against parents who let their children suffer for reasons of faith led to the change in Indiana's law. The state is headquarters of the Faith Assembly, whose 1,500 members nationwide n are strictly enjoined from using doctors. The Fort Wayne 'News-Sentinel, which closely follows the church, estimates -that 63 followers in eight states have died since 1976 because they would not accept medical treatment. Of these, 43 were children. In a particularly shocking incident in 1981, one-year-old Evie Swanson of Attica, Ind., received second-and third-degree burns when scalding...
...feature's impact was reflected in a recent survey by Norman Fosback, a newsletter publisher in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Fosback studied "Heard on the Street" columns published during 1983 and found that stocks discussed favorably quickly climbed about 6% in value, while those that were criticized fell about the same amount...