Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the existing problems, foreign journalists receive better treatment and more freedoms now than five years ago. But it's important to note that the treatment is considered favorable mostly when compared to the absolute absence of freedom which was so recently the case. A decade ago, the U.S. news agencies had no bureaus in Beijing, and had to cover China from the nearby British territory, Hong Kong...
...second article quoted Nicaragua's President--"It is known that the United States has compromised the sovereignty of some neighboring countries of ours, like Honduras and Costa Rica, in order to maintain its aggression against Nicaragua." It went on to note that the World Court has already ordered the United States to stop "arming and training" Contra forces...
...eventually killed her at age 44. The research is impressive; witnesses range from Bandleader Artie Shaw to the warden's secretary at the federal prison where Holiday spent ten months on drug charges ("To my knowledge," the secretary recalls of the singer's stay there, "she never sang a note"). Best of all are the copious samples of her singing, many of them culled from rarely seen movies and TV appearances...
...officer insisted, "We're not blind up there, not by a long shot." The U.S., he explained reassuringly, has Atlas-Centaur and various versions of Titan rockets "tucked away somewhere" that could be used if the need becomes acute. Said he: "We're O.K." That was the only upbeat note of the week on America's continuing space troubles...
Airline-reservation computers, for example, closely measure how long individual clerks take to handle each customer and the amount of time the employee spends between calls. The computer takes note of any idle moment and measures lunch hours, coffee breaks and even trips to the bathroom. At grocery stores, optical scanners not only ring up prices but also tell a central computer how many items per minute the clerk is handling, as well as other information. Even in factories where employees operate complex electronic machine tools rather than keyboards, computers can monitor the equipment and alert management about slow...