Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some newspaper every day. ("At least part" is another of those suspicious phrases.) Less than a third of U.S. adults watch TV news, local or national, on a given day-a figure Simmons says may be too low. And 31% of adults read one of the three newsmagazines, TIME, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report...
...look seriously at what has for too long been regarded as an insignificant problem in women's health warn against carrying things too far. "I have a lot of empathy for a woman who loses control under premenstrual stress," a member of a group called PMS Action told Newsweek last week. "Yet so little is known about PMS that use of it as a defense is premature...
...began to make noise. He accused the media of partiality in its coverage of the Middle East and singled out the abduction of the reporters as proof the media could not be unbiased. And Chafets revealed that the correspondents involved worked for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and the Associated Press...
Finally, Jonathan Kifner of the Times and Julian Nundy of Newsweek admitted they were among the five detained reporters--nearly nine months after the fact Kifner claimed the entire thing had been an "embarrassing" mistake that all parties involved regretted. He added that none of the correspondents had been in danger. Yet several major publications--including Time the French newspaper Le Figaro and the German magazine Stern--reported the threats to the journalists. And other correspondents in Lebanon who knew of the affair confirmed that the Americans had their lives threatened...
DESPITE THIS IMPORTANT FOCUS on job training and education, however, Newsweek's program for getting America back to work does not, in general, give us a very helpful guide, much less a solution, to the unemployment problem. Fundamental questions about the trade-off imposed by labor unions between higher wages and extra jobs, or relations between firms and their employees are not discussed. Because Newsweek so rarely takes an editorial position, the agenda does draw widespread public attention to the plight of the jobless. But it does little more than that...