Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into him on the street. She suggested Paris and, unasked, sent him a one-way ticket. The Warnaco deal had the same Kellyesque serendipity. Three years ago, Kelly was free-lancing while building his own label. "If we'd have sneezed, we'd have gone bankrupt," he remembers. Enter journalist Gloria Steinem on assignment to do a profile about Kelly for NBC's Today show. Steinem introduced Kelly to Warnaco CEO Linda Wachner...
Licensed to a French journalist by the New York-based Topps company, which launched their American forebears in 1985, Les Crados are suddenly de rigueur among French schoolchildren. Even though they were banned in some schools across the country within two months after their release in January, some 12 million packs have been sold at 40 cents each. But the real grossing-out has taken place among legions of appalled grownups. Les Crados have even come to the attention of Premier Michel Rocard, who said he was "astounded." The National Institute for Consumers' Affairs has been asked to investigate...
...average day in Peru, six people die by political violence. One day it is a government agent organizing peasant cooperatives. One day it is a ruling- party mayor. One day it is a government-aligned journalist. Most days it is peasants...
...years since he helped topple a President, Carl Bernstein has become famous more as a celebrity than as a journalist. He has been pictured on the gossip pages with a procession of notable women. He was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men, based on the Watergate book he co- authored with Bob Woodward, and, as a fictional character, by Jack Nicholson in Heartburn, based on a cleverly barbed novel by his former wife, Nora Ephron. All the while, he was waging an off-and-on struggle with a project that he described to friends...
Baker and Shevardnadze meet in Vienna with foreign ministers from 33 other nations and kick off a parley to redraft Europe's military map. -- Greece's embattled Papandreou fights back against an accuser. -- A journey into the heart of El Salvador's guerrilla war. -- American journalist Terry Anderson begins his fifth year of captivity in Beirut: a look at his tragic ordeal...