Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, has ever spied a fish in the bathroom mirror while shaving. Rothchild, an author and free-lance journalist when he is not playing the market, had earlier broken about even in some desultory investments ("Breaking even," he explains in a helpful Fool's Glossary, means a "loss as explained to family, friends, and neighbors"). This, he felt, was because he did not know what he was doing. His new idea was logical: take a year to learn as much as possible about investing, then live solvently ever after. His stake was about $16,500, accumulated by selling...
...shyly hidden in folded arms -- and pink taffeta skirt hiked up, revealing an extravagance of thighs and a beauty mark on the inside | of her knee. Gordon promptly called the magazine to protest. To her chagrin, she soon learned that Vieira herself was unruffled. Indeed, the 34-year-old journalist had happily posed for the photo. Says she: "I don't think they did me wrong." Nor was Vieira offended by Television Critic Tom Shales' accompanying mash note that begins by comparing her to a car ("luxurious appointments, high performance") and ends with an ecstatic gush ("Baby, baby, gimme some...
...Stone's The Trial of Socrates provides an unintended counterweight to the central theses of Bloom, who fancies himself a disciple of Socrates. Stone, the legendary lefty muckraking journalist, set out in his retirement to write a sweeping tome on freedom of thought in human history. His studies inevitably drew him back to Athens. "There, like so many before me," he writes, "I fell in love with the Greeks...
Because Mozambique is a coastal nation, land-locked Black African countries, such as Zambia and Zimbabwe, depend on its ports for commercial contact, he said. It is to South Africa's economic and political advantage to disrupt routes of trade in Mozambique and appropriate commercial traffic for itself, the journalist said...
William Minter, a journalist currently affiliated with the African News, said that these wars against Angola and Mozambique have been neglected by the world media...