Word: globe
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...allegations, published yesterday by The Boston Globe and attributed to unnamed "sources" in the Boston Police Department implied that Johnson was unable to run police operations under his authority effectively and accepted the Harvard position to avoid an impending--and unfavorable--re-assignment. "Someone is obviously trying to do a job on me," Johnson responded yesterday...
Johnson was under attack from community leaders in the areas of Roxbury and Dorchester that were under his command. The Globe reported, because the police were unable to stem the area's large drug trade. The community sources reportedly attributed the failure to Johnson's inability to work well with his subordinates...
...Boston Globe editor Thomas Winship said at the time, "It's not a red-letter day for the future of quality journalism in this country." Winship's apprehensions center on a man whose British papers run front-page headlines along the lines of, "Sailor Who Turned Into a Girl Witch"; whose New York Post in 1977 ran front-page coupons to draft Ed Koch for governor; and whose editorial instincts often appear geared as much towards winning exclusives as towards Wingo!, whose daily jack pots grow almost as fast as Murdoch's holding in the American press...
...answer by military experts is not altogether reassuring. Its essence: as long as trouble on opposite sides of the globe can be met by deployments the size of those in Lebanon and Grenada, there is no strain. Those two crises are engaging only two of the twelve Marine amphibious units (a total of 150,000 troops) available to be dispatched round the world, and, of course, there remain all the other armed services of the nation to be drawn ons But a pair of widely separated major confrontations-a Soviet threat to the Persian Gulf oilfields, say, and a blowup...
...home computer by the industry's giant (1982 sales: $34.4 billion). IBM repeatedly denied that the product even existed, but newspapers and trade journals were filled with speculation about the new machine and its expected announcement date. Late last week the guesswork grew frenzied. After the Boston Globe published what it called a photograph of the home computer, Wall Street began hearing rumors that an angered IBM would delay the new model until early next year. But industry watchers quickly dismissed the reports as "disinformation" put out by the company to heighten suspense...