Word: news
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joint news conference in Malta was held aboard the Soviet luxury liner Maxim Gorky, which was pressed into service as the site for the two days of talks after bad weather forced cancellation of plans to use U.S. and Soviet warships anchored offshore. An afternoon session and a dinner on Saturday were cancelled because of the rough weather...
Gorbachev made fun of Bush's celebrated caution, in fact, telling the joint news conference, "In our position, the most dangerous thing is to exaggerate" the accomplishments of the Malta summit "and that we should always preserve elements of cautiousness--and I use the favorite word by President Bush...
...merged company agreed last week to shed a subsidiary that had turned out to be a disappointing performer. Time Warner said it will sell its Illinois-based textbook publishing unit, Scott, Foresman, for $455 million to Harper & Row Publishers, which is owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. When it bought Scott, Foresman in 1986, Time paid $520 million and assumed $50 million in debt. Time Warner's losses on the Scott, Foresman investment will total $175 million, which will be written off in the fourth quarter...
...York City is a tough town for newspaper competition, but an upstart called Street News has a lot going for it. The monthly newspaper features writers such as pop stars Patti LaBelle and Gloria Estefan, and ads from Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. Most important, the non-profit Street News has a highly motivated, 50-member sales staff: homeless people who work strictly on commission. To apply for the job, "you don't even need clean clothes," says SN editor Hutchinson Persons, a rock musician and founder of a coalition to help the homeless...
When a big story breaks, the first thing reporters do is get the news. The next thing, usually, is to round up a few experts to say what it all means. Too often, what gets experts quoted -- and called again the next time news relates to their specialty -- is not specific knowledge of a case but crisp, piquant opinion. The expert enjoys the publicity; the journalist enlivens a story. The losers are the public, who get ill-informed speculation masquerading as analysis, and the news subjects, who are assessed in intimate, knowing terms by strangers...