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...tough for today's 24/7 Drudge-CNN-Huffington Post grazers to understand the journalistic wallop that Anderson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column packed in its heyday. Appearing in close to 1,000 U.S. newspapers a generation ago, Anderson drew readers with his decades of scoops: he reported Washington's tilt away from India and toward Pakistan (it earned him a 1972 Pulitzer). He established a link between the Nixon Justice Department's settling of an antitrust case against ITT and the conglomerate's $400,000 pledge to the 1972 Republican Convention. He revealed key elements of the Reagan Administration...
...savior in his own quasi-religious faith.The album’s opener, “I Will See You in Far off Places,” starts with a banging rock opening that could be any number of bands from The Smith’s mid-80s heyday. But the lyrics immediately reveal Morrissey’s agenda to ponder the mysteries of life, not to simply entertain: “Nobody knows what human life is/why we come, why we go/so why then do I know/I will see you in far off places?”There?...
...automaker recently disclosed it had lost $10.6 billion in 2005, not $8.6 billion as the company reported in January. March sales estimates prepared by outside analysts suggest that GM's market share has dipped close to 21% in March, a far cry from the 45% GM commanded in its heyday of the 1970s...
...chair triangle" (il triangolo della sedia), this district every year produces as many as 40 million chairs of all shapes and sizes--typically of beech and oak wood--for offices, homes, hotels, cruise ships, hospitals and restaurants around the world. Locals like to boast that the district in its heyday made 1 of every 3 chairs sold. The demand provided ample work for a tight-knit network of 1,100 highly specialized small firms. And it transformed a once modest rural area into one of Italy's richest and most dynamic commercial zones, a district with virtually full employment...
...cutting such an inoffensive, middle-of-the road profile, he helped encourage a culture of intellectual and political diversity that not only served a wide spectrum of students but meant that Harvard’s influence in the world of ideas and policy did not end as the heyday of JFK liberalism gave way to the conservative Reagan...