Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was only one item on the agenda last week as seven Finnish Cabinet members gathered in emergency session in Helsinki's Government House: acceptance of a resignation letter written in the shaky hand of President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 81, a victim for the past few years of progressive hardening of the arteries. Although inevitable, Kekkonen's departure still shocked many of the 4.8 million Finns, who cannot remember any other presidential figure than the tall, bald, once athletic man who has guided Finland since...
Even in the wake of national tragedy, the editors of the Chronicle were playing up one item of local concern. Describing the recently formed Charles River Railway Company, they offered the following observation...
...flashy side of the paper produced the bugging item...
...publish a rumor that it found "utterly impossible to believe." Many readers assumed that lawyers had cobbled together this apologetic phrase, hoping to mitigate libel damages. Not so, says Publisher Donald Graham, 36. The responsibility was his. Defending the editorial soon became more awkward than defending the gossip item. It infuriated the paper's national desk. As for Bradlee, he disclaimed any part in the editorial and seemed to be reliving the days of Deep Throat; he had been "eyeball to eyeball" with the gossip columnist's source, who got it from "two members of the Carter family...
...story. One question Bradlee has difficulty answering is why, if he believed the Carter bugging story to be true (and he had personally cleared it before publication), had he not assigned a reporter to develop it into a front-page story, instead of settling for a smirky little gossip item? From his experience, Publisher Graham has concluded that reportorially "there can be only one standard for the entire paper...