Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporting on the little-known incident last week, after having sifted through documents newly made available by the Freedom of Information Act, the Albuquerque Journal said conventional explosives used in the bomb's trigger did detonate but failed to set off a thermonuclear blast. A Defense Department official sought to put the best possible light on what could have been a calamity by saying the failure of the bomb to explode "confirms the efficacy of the safety devices...
...grandson of the celebrated Dutch immigrant who wrote The Americanization of Edward Bok and for 30 years edited the Ladies' Home Journal, Derek Bok was trained as an attorney and came to the Harvard law faculty in 1958, then became dean of the law school in 1968. He still cherishes a lawyerly faith in due process and in reasoned consensus. "Someone with more intellectual flair might leap past process, but it means too much to Bok," says an aide. "He's almost obsessed by a need for fairness...
...keep Gaddafi off balance. The timing of the U.S. maneuvers was a coincidence. The "Sea Wind" exercises with Egypt had been scheduled for two years, and the F-111s had flown into Britain for a previously planned NATO exercise. Speculation about U.S. intentions began with a Wall Street Journal report that the U.S. had evidence Gaddafi was plotting new terrorist acts and that it was ready to retaliate against him. In response, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said the obvious: "We certainly have reason to believe that the Libyan state . . . has not forsaken its desire to create terrorist activities worldwide...
...been awfully good," said Barry Bingham '28. Bingham, the retired publisher of the Louisville Courier Journal, came from Kentucky with his wife Mary C. Bingham '28 for the bash...
Three Business School finance experts yesterday told a group of Wall Street Journal-clutching alumni that rapid, major changes in capital markets including merger-mania and growing global integration have significantly altered the money profession in the past 10 years...