Word: globe
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...author, a former writer for The Crimson and The New York Times, writes, and he wasn't referring to The Crimson. White, who worked at The Times from 1974 to 1978, has written a novel highly critical of the "Gray Lady," transparently disguised here as the New York "Globe," (Just in case readers don't get the message, they are quickly told three times in the novel's first three pages of the Globe's "stately," "black" and "great" Corinthian masthead.) True Bearing is a novel about The Times; about journalism and reporting; about shipping; about relationships; about integrity...
...recent Boston Globe poll shows the measure's backers have the slight edge, particularly among people who don't know much about the issue. On paper the measure looks ideal--it would bring the state closer to the national average in property taxes--a move several high-technology industries say is necessary for them to induce new employees to settle in the state. Not only would the reductions save homeowners and businesses money, many backers hope the cuts would be so staggering as to force the legislature to develop a more progressive tax system...
...Synod of Bishops, created by Pope Paul VI in 1965, is potentially an important vehicle for sharing Vatican power with bishops whose people live under vastly different conditions all over the globe. Though the synod is only an advisory body and the Pope sets the agenda, bishops have an opportunity to come to the Vatican every few years to present their ideas on church problems. The synod of 1969, a year after Paul's hotly disputed reaffirmation of the ban on artificial birth control, brought a demand from the bishops that they be consulted next time before the Pope...
...EPPS let the sleeping dog lie until last fall, when Olive began disappearing for days at a time and papers lay undelivered day after day at the HDNS drop site. Complaints poured in; the newspaper officials discussed replacing Olive with a more reliable manager; bills to the Globe and News Distributors, Inc.--the wholesaler that sells the Times to HDNS piled up by the week. Having put himself at the end of the chain of command. Epps should have responded to these problems by firing Olive...
...Cunningham been a young man with the same credentials, editorialized the New York Times, "no newspaper would dream of publishing the tale ... In the upper ranks of the FORTUNE 500, unfortunately, women are more visible as receptionists, secretaries and charwomen than as makers of policy." Said the Boston Globe: "When a young woman makes good, her colleagues get suspicious... they make excuses: sex favoritism, affirmative action, window dressing." Pulitzer-prize-winning Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman found the Mary and Bill show to be "absolutely ripe with hostility toward uppity women." Asked Goodman: "If women can sleep their...