Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leal said one piece of the jet was found six miles away. The RCN radio network said a body was found a half-mile from the main crash site. Several looters were caught removing. rings and gold chains from the corpses, policesaid...
...wire services, hundreds of stations are also expanding their reach, and often cutting costs, by subscribing to video news services, swapping coverage with other broadcasters, or making deals to get their stories on cable stations. WWL, the CBS affiliate in New Orleans, has its own all-news cable channel. Half a dozen video news services offer prepackaged stories to fill out local newscasts. One of the largest services is Conus, a news cooperative with 100 U.S. member stations. Other leading entries include Group W Newsfeed, a division of Westinghouse, and Visnews, an international video news wire. Recognizing the potential...
...interesting to viewers who may already have seen them twice, some critics suggest that the networks offer more in-depth analysis. Says Herford: "Maybe Nightline is the model for the future evening newscast. Maybe the networks should tackle the one or two most important issues every day during that half hour...
...reporting, a realism . . . that would portray the individual in intimate and inextricable relation to the society around him." This realism, argues Wolfe, was what characterized the success of writers as varied as Zola, Dostoyevsky, Dickens and Lewis, whose Elmer Gantry prefigured the Jim Bakker affair by more than half a century. Nor is Wolfe too modest to add that such realism is what "created the 'absorbing' or 'gripping' quality" peculiar to his own novel...
...Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis, Japan's direct investment (ownership of at least 10% of any one firm) in the U.S. stood at $53 billion in 1988, a 52% increase since 1987. Even so, Japanese direct investment was only one- fourth that of all Europe, about half that of Great Britain and roughly equal to that of the Netherlands. Nor was it any more one-sided than that of the Dutch. Neither Japan nor any other country imminently threatens to gain economic control over the U.S., whose nonbank multinational corporations have assets totaling well over $5 trillion...