Word: linke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This small link between McCaffrey's undergraduate years and her later life is rare. Her degree did not have a profound influence, she says, except initially when "a Radcliffe honors degree meant the difference between the [employer's] picking me over someone else...
...months ago, rival Hewlett-Packard allied with Microsoft to push the software giant's Windows NT program into corporate servers, the machines that link large computer networks. In 1995 Digital had cut its own Microsoft deal, looking to the burgeoning NT market to fuel its growth. Instead, it is losing ground in a market already dominated by Intel, rather than Digital, chips...
...this recantation--as unusual as it was--did not knock the struts out of the story entirely. Ceppos noted that Webb's reporting was "right on many important points." The series did, for example, establish a link between one of the most notorious L.A. drug dealers--"Freeway Rick" Ross--and Nicaraguan suppliers who were admitted supporters of the contras. And while strongly hinting at CIA knowledge of the drug connection, the story never explicitly made that claim...
...there was any gloating at The New York Times, Washington Post or Los Angeles Times over executive editor Jerry Ceppos' abject pullback from the San Jose Mercury News's series about the crack-contra link, there shouldn't have been. Gary Webb's stories were seriously flawed, but so were the stories those papers produced in an attempt to debunk him. All three, to a greater or lesser extent, committed the same journalistic sin for which they indicted the Mercury News: playing up evidence that Webb was wrong while burying proof to the contrary...
...Railways link the two coasts at Promontory, Utah...