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Similarly a report from New York Times correspondent Malcolm Browne that U.S. warplanes had hit an Iraqi nuclear installation was held up for two days while censors wrangled over wording. By the time his story was cleared, the Pentagon had announced the same news...
...floor at night just before the lights go out, upstart publications are falling victim to hard times. In the past few weeks four notable consumer magazines have folded, mostly because of a slump in advertising sales. Egg, which premiered last February a week before the death of doting founder Malcolm Forbes, dimmed along with the trendy bicoastal night life it chronicled. And publisher Steven Greenberg closed Fame, which had covered celebrities for two years...
...economy that relies on products of the land for export earnings, the rural crisis is especially painful. Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, now retired to his sheep and cattle ranch in the state of Victoria, warns that the slump could be the worst since the Great Depression 60 years ago. According to the New South Wales Farmers Association, its members are selling out and leaving the land at the rate of one every two hours. Says Daryl Reading of Gowrie: "It makes you mad. We're good at what we do, but we still can't make a living...
...motion filed Dec. 17, Boston attorney Lee S. MacPhee argued that news articles about the case have biased potential jurors' minds, making a fair trial here impossible. He asked Suffolk Superior Court Judge Malcolm Graham to shift the case to Franklin, Hampshire or Berkshire County, or to bring a jury from one of those counties to Boston to hear the case...
...making campaign contributions and doing it for more than spare change." Nonetheless, fund-raising operations -- notably EMILY's List (Early Money Is Like Yeast), the Hollywood Women's Political Committee and the Women's Campaign Fund -- are slowly changing the gender deficit. EMILY's List, founded by Ellen Malcolm, has raised more than $800,000 in 1990, in contrast to $650,000 two years earlier. Special-interest groups like the National Abortion Rights Action League have formed political-action committees that contribute heavily to pro-choice candidates...