Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June incident marked the second time that CASA's offices were broken into a week before a congressional debate on sending aid to the Contras, Salmeron said. The incident before this one, the per-pretrators left a note attacking the organization's politics, said Salmeron...
...blunt vernacular helped to establish the voice that influenced generations of American writers. Like that other homegrown art form, jazz, the hard-boiled style relied on a formula but encouraged improvisation. James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice) counterpointed violence with steamy sexuality; Chandler's signature note of sarcastic charm can be heard in the opening of his 1936 story Goldfish: "I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling." Currently, Parker's Spenser sings the best sassy blues: "Ideal options aren't something I have much to do with. Most...
...matters of fact, Sperber seems considerably more sound. She secured cooperation from Murrow's widow Janet and son Casey, and reflects the family point of view. Yet she does note, albeit very briefly, Murrow's hard drinking, bursts of temper and infidelities, especially his open wartime love affair with Pamela Churchill, the British Prime Minister's daughter-in-law--matters the docudrama deliberately overlooked. Using declassified FBI files, Sperber demonstrates abuses by that agency, the State Department and its Passport Bureau to harass Murrow and suggests their files were leaked to Alcoa, which then withdrew sponsorship of Murrow's trademark...
...passport requirement was announced on May 22 in a tersely worded note delivered to all embassies in East Berlin. The U.S., British and French missions rejected the message and directed their diplomats to show only identity cards when they drove through Checkpoint Charlie, the crossing between East and West Berlin most used by foreigners. East German guards allowed them to pass, but diplomats from other countries, including West Germany, were turned back and advised to return with their passports...
While the new firm will have some 12% of the world market for mainframe computers, it will still be hard pressed to challenge mighty IBM, which controls nearly 63%. Critics note that Burroughs and Sperry computers do not run the same programs and thus cannot be linked together. Some customers are already nervous: a group of 17 New England companies that use Sperry computers wrote Blumenthal last week to ask if Burroughs would discontinue their machines. In a telephone call to Elaine Massa, technical-services manager for Connecticut Natural Gas, Blumenthal assured the group that he has no intention...