Word: important
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unimportant. The story won the competition for coverage with a variety of interesting events. But how and why the press chooses its stories, and consequently how people view those events, leaves much to be desired. Network competition for ratings and newspaper circulation drives may be undermining the most important goal of journalism--to objectively report world events of import rather than to cater to the demands of a sensationalism-hungry audience...
...Ending import curbs would threaten the auto companies' high-octane recovery. Sales of U.S.-built cars surged 36% in the last ten days of April, and the industry expects a record $10 billion profit this year. It is in this atmosphere that Detroit paid out a grand total of $314 million in bonuses for 1983. General Motors paid bonuses that averaged $31,289 to 5,807 executives, while Ford gave an average of $13,372 to 6,035 managers. If shareholders agree, Chrysler plans bonuses that average $35,222 for 1,465 executives. Says Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell...
...than 50% in 1985. Ford and American Motors would suffer the worst setbacks because they have made no deals to distribute Japanese cars. Chrysler might be able to maintain its market share by selling more models from its Japanese partner, Mitsubishi. The only company to favor a removal of import curbs is General Motors, which plans to sell Suzuki and Isuzu cars through its Chevrolet dealers...
...spokesman for Hunthausen put it last week, "the archbishop had one notion of what imprimatur meant and the Holy See understood something else." At the order of Rome's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the imprimatur has been lifted. The move had symbolic import, but no actual censorship effect since church officials did not impose a ban on the work's distribution by the Paulist Press, its Catholic publisher...
...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 and charts and give play to national and foreign stories of import, whether or not they are of obvious interest to readers...