Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here again, the main concern is not to infringe the letter to the law. There is no moral responsibility for deformation or disproportion. What sort of responsibility does a journalist have to his readers, or to history? If they have misled public opinion or the government by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, do we know of any cases of public recognition and rectification of such mistakes by the same journalist or the same newspaper? No, it does not happen, because it would damage sales. A nation may be the victim of such a mistake, but the journalist always gets away...
...letter you published [July 31] erroneously stated that CARE packages were now being sent to American soldiers abroad. The fact is that CARE does not provide assistance of any land to military personnel. Moreover, no CARE packages have been sent anywhere since 1968. Food is shipped in bulk and distributed via schools and nutrition centers...
Last week it was time to count the votes. The three main unions?the A.P.W.U., the National Association of Letter Carriers, and the Mail Handlers division of the Laborers' International Union, which together represent 497,000 of the 554,000 postal employees?rejected the contract by a close but decisive margin of 5 to 4. That same vote authorized two of the union leaders to call a strike within five days?illegal though it would be?unless the Postal Service agreed to new negotiations. Postmaster General William F. Bolger rejected the bid. The Postal Service then went to court...
...thing. But this executive and his employer had each been contributing just over $1 per week to a group legal insurance plan, underwritten by Midwest Mutual Insurance Co. and sponsored by the Oregon State Bar Association. The tenant simply consulted one of the plan's attorneys, who wrote a letter to the landlady. "Before we knew it, a check showed up in the mail," says the executive. "If I didn't have the insurance, I probably would have just stood there and taken...
...boozing increased and the jobs evaporated. His wife Sara would drive around after lunch, searching for his car in the parking lots of Beverly Hills restaurants; when she found it, she would go in and march him away like a truant. He composed a form letter of apology for hostesses of dinner parties he had disgraced...