Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alcohol consumption substantially increases the risk of breast cancer in women, according to a study by Harvard doctors which appeared in yesterday's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine...
...given. As a result of a flap at Harvard about this instance, and some others more or less at the same time, the CIA somewhat changed its policy about keeping the source of funding secret, and the CIA is clearly identified as this source in the Wall Street Journal article...
Neither were his children, whose flights from home are cause for empty-nest humor. There is, for example, the irony of a successful junk sculptor sourly contemplating the marginal occupations of his offspring: a daughter who molds clay "pinch pots" in California; another who edits a genealogy journal in Cincinnati and is writing a "highly ambitious feminist novel called Ever Since Eve." One son makes mobiles, "unrequested by the world," while his brother tries to crack the Manhattan film world of "lost young souls stoned on media, pounding the sidewalks and virtually (who knows? -- maybe actually) selling their bodies...
...partly because they realize that some private enterprises are inevitable. "Until recently it was generally held that the collectivized public sector was capable of satisfying all the population's demands and that individual enterprise . . . would gradually die out," wrote Economist Ivor Raig in last fall's issue of the journal Sotsiologicheskie Issledovania (Sociological Research). Now, he suggested, officials acknowledge that "individual enterprise satisfies to a considerable extent the population's demands in many goods and services...
American officials had qualms about consigning Linnas to the Soviet judicial system. After all, the 1962 verdict had been published in the journal Socialist Legality even before the trial took place. But the Soviet evidence against him was overwhelming. In denying Linnas' plea that, in the name of humanity, he not be sent back, a three-judge panel in New York City declared that "noble words . . . ring hollow when spoken by a man who ordered the extermination of innocent men, women and children kneeling at the edge of a mass grave." Last week the Supreme Court...