Word: informant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plante, Wallace, Donaldson & Co. are rightly proud of their dogged surveillance of the most powerful man on earth. But the bright lights of power sooner or later blind almost everyone who bathes in them. Journalists were originally created to enlighten, not to threaten; to inform, not to perform; to know, not to show...
Entitled "The Soviet Union Under Mikhail Gorbachev: On the Road to the Summit and The Seventieth Anniversary of the October Revolution," the all-day lecture series was held to promote contact between the academic and journalistic worlds and to inform journalists of the state of U.S. relations with the Soviet Union, participants said...
...have heard and seen you on the news," began the letter, which was stamped "please inform sender of the correct mailing address...
Ultimately, the urge to inform overrides the obligation to entertain. Perhaps punditry is not the best preparation for fiction. Safire the columnist is entitled to his belief that the stuff of life can be summed up in political thrusts and parries. Safire the novelist would have been better off if he had allowed himself, and his imagination, more freedom...
...this 351-year-old institution). Or maybe they just don't like undergraduates; sometimes it's hard to tell. Therefore, student input is ignored on decisions on investment policy, treatment of unions, handling student protests, future expansion, research policy, and so on. In fact, the Administration fails to constantly inform students what issues it takes up and what it decides...