Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radiation, or smartass, sickness after overlong exposure to Nixon & Co." The result has been some notable missteps, such as a leering and erroneous account of Zbigniew Brzezinski's sexual behavior and a Pulitzer-prizewinning story that proved to be a phony. So when the Carters challenged the bugging item and demanded a retraction, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee characteristically asked: "How do you make a public apology-run up and down Pennsylvania Avenue bare-bottom, shouting 'I'm sorry'?" He hasn't yet-but last week the Post looked a little bare-bottomed as it made...
...arms importers, security concerns can lead to a new type of dependency as they become impoverished pawns in the superpower struggle. Weapons shipments tend to promote regional arms races (India and Pakistan, for example), with the ante raised every time a more advanced item of technology, such as the F-16 jet or the MiG-25, is introduced into a region. Says House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Clement Zablocki: "Reagan's new policy could result in destabilizing arms races in sensitive areas of the world." If only in financial terms, the Third World can ill afford it: the aggregate debt...
...most entertaining part of the visit. Albertson's, along with five other U.S. supermarkets, has installed a tiny black box manufactured by National Semiconductor Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif. The device electronically simulates a woman's voice calling out the price of each item, the total bill and the amount of change owed shoppers. The machine, dubbed POSitalker, is usually connected to a so-called laser scanner, which is a computerized checkout machine that can automatically add up a shopper's selections simply by reading a computer code printed on the packages...
...Washington Post," it began, "but the one you are about to hear from comes about as close as you can get to being the basic, collective 'we'-the voice of the Washington Post, speaking for the Washington Post." The original "Ear" item, the editorial noted, had reported only that a rumor was circulating; that did not mean the newspaper thought it was true. In fact, continued the Post, "we find that rumor utterly impossible to believe." To suggest that what appears elsewhere in the paper is somehow not the real Washington Post is confusing enough. To add that...
...very least, the item raised questions about the Post's journalistic proprieties. Powell had a valid question: If the Post really believed that the Carters had been bugging visitors to Blair House, including heads of state and the next U.S. President, why did the story not rate full investigative reporting and Page One headlines? "It would rival Watergate: the President ... violating the laws and the Constitution," claimed Powell. And if Post editors did not believe the bugging had taken place, Adamson noted, printing the rumor could constitute the "reckless disregard" for truth that a public figure must prove...