Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eckstein said McGraw-Hill's style of management would let DRI maintain its independence and develop. "McGraw-Hill, for instance, owns Business Week but they don't tell them what to print--and they won't tell DRI what to forecast about the economy," Eckstein said yesterday...
...earth on his prayer rug, and was preparing to put his forehead upon it. The Sunnis angrily objected to this practice, Khomeini deftly answered that it was wrong to place one's forehead directly on a rug, that one should be more humble than that. He was let...
Some historical perspective is necessary. The proud judiciary traces its origins back far beyond the beginning of the printed word to times when the judge was king, and vice versa. Journalists, on the other hand, are relative newcomers, the spiritual descendants of itinerant printers, scribblers and (let's face it) rebels. Indeed, one of the reasons that journalists are so worried, even perhaps slightly paranoid, about the loss of their freedoms is that these rights have never been very secure, here or abroad...
...recent court actions really make much of a difference to journalists in practice? Many judges doubt it, but let them try an experiment and take on a tough reporting assignment. Let them try to get complicated and controversial information from resisting sources and amid conflicting claims - without the judicial power to subpoena documents or witnesses - and have to testify under the disciplines of contempt or perjury. Let these judges then see how far they will get with their assignment if they are unable to promise an informant, who may be risking his job, assured confidentiality, or if they...
...year lease, and he claims to have 150 nights booked for a season beginning in November 1980. But $3.5 million worth of expansion and renovations lie ahead, and there may be a scramble to get them done in time. Reason: a bitter Friedberg has so far refused to let Lodge's architects into the theater until July 1980, when Sack's lease expires. "For a simple project," says Lodge, "it's been an amazing mess...