Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many experts, like Senior Editor George Church, are drawn to their disciplines irresistibly by the forces of supply and demand. "The reason I began reporting business," Church admits, "was that I heard the Wall Street Journal was hiring people with no experience." Thus in 1954, Church began his apprenticeship on the Journal, reporting on the food and textile industries. "I found myself far more fascinated with business than I had expected," he recalls. "It requires the type of mind that enjoys puzzles-the more pieces, the better." Since joining TIME in 1969, Church has unraveled economic enigmas in dozens...
...experienced reporter (the Wall Street Journal, Science magazine), Boffey, 39, had only limited help from the academy. By tradition, it keeps most of its working documents private. But Boffey and three young associates, working under the aegis of Ralph Nader's consumerist Center for Study of Responsive Law, overcame the academy's secrecy by conducting more than 500 interviews, many of them with academicians themselves, including an initially reluctant Academy President Philip Handler. In such controversial areas as the sonic booms and atmospheric damage caused by supersonic transports, the dangers of cyclamates and the effects of defoliants...
...investigation was prompted by the publication, in the June 1973 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, of the four doctors' results in an experiment involving penicillin administered to pregnant women...
...tenure as a professor of Government at Harvard, by vote of that department's senior faculty last fall, based to a great extent on the strength of that disputed, 480-page manuscript. When kearns switched publishers in April, The New York Times ran a long story. The Wall Street Journal editorialized that Harvard should deny her tenure, a lot of people shook their heads in Cambridge, and the dean of the Harvard Faculty reconvened the Government Department...
...international Protestant leader has added a new item to the crowded agenda for ecumenical discussion between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Writing in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, the Rev. Lukas Vischer, top staff theologian at the Geneva-based World Council of Churches, criticizes the political status of Vatican City, the 108.7-acre enclave in Rome where Roman Catholicism is headquartered...