Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most striking example of the agency's "new thinking" was an article last month in the ideological journal Kommunist by Vladimir Rubanov, a department head in the KGB research institute. Rubanov argued for an end to "the cult of secrecy," which was preventing the Soviet Union from becoming an "information" society. He pointed out that although foreign specialists were allowed to visit military sites, Soviet journalists often could not even visit factories and economic institutions...
...Wall Street Journal expanded from one to two sections just in time for the biggest bull market in history. Circulation rose steadily, and the newspaper soon found itself bursting at the seams with advertising. Last week, in a very different financial climate, the Journal traded its two-part design for a sharp three-piece look...
...format neatly regroups the paper's many departments into three sections: general news and commentary, marketing and consumer news, and hard- core financial reporting and statistics. Graphics are bolder, stock listings are more readable, and new statistical features have been added. Journal executives concede that the changes are being made "for competitive reasons." In the wake of last year's stock-market crash, advertising is down nearly 12%, and circulation has slipped 5%. Meanwhile, competitors like the New York Times, USA Today and Investor's Daily are chipping away at the Journal's market...
...latest findings, published in today's New England Journal of Medicine, were based on the first 20 months of military screening of all recruits. Just one of the 135,187 people tested from rural areas was misclassified as infected...
...studies. Athletes take the steroids in doses much larger than those used for therapeutic purposes, and doctors have been reluctant to conduct research that would in any way condone a practice they consider unhealthy. Athletes have fewer doubts. Dr. Forest Tennant, a California researcher, estimated in the New England Journal of Medicine that "as many as 1 million athletes" in the U.S. alone are using anabolic steroids. Sprinters like Johnson, who rely on large muscles for bursts of power, are believed to be turning more and more to steroids. In football, the remarkable rise in the size and strength...