Word: philadelphia
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...learned to apply it to social science." Meyer's findings on the riots helped the Free Press win a Pulitzer. It also inspired him to write Precision Journalism, a computer reporters' bible that came out in 1973. Among the first reporters to turn to the machine were the Philadelphia Inquirer's Donald Barlett and James Steele. They used an IBM for a 1973 series that won two national awards for revealing disparate court sentencing of violent offenders. "If we did that story all by hand," says Steele, "we'd still be working on it." But, he cautions, "the computer does...
...first glance, Herbert Cantley of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., seems an unexceptional 46-year-old man who earns an honest living renovating and painting houses. But that is only his latest career. Last year he was fired from his job as a sales manager at the Philadelphia office of Shearson Lehman Bros., a New York-based brokerage firm, after authorities began investigating % large unreported currency transactions at the company. Last week that investigation finished with a flourish: a federal grand jury indicted Shearson Lehman, Cantley and six other people on charges of laundering $1.2 million for an illegal gambling syndicate...
...United States numbers approximately 1 million Ukrainian immigrants, with the heaviest concentration in New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia and Chicago. Canada's Ukrainian community, which is about the same size as the United States', wields much greater power in that nation of under 30 million people...
...sense of backwater isolation. Charles Kasinga, the executive at McCann Erickson (Kenya) Ltd. in charge of the Coke account, practices applied semiotics. "There is a perceived way of life embedded in each bottle of Coke," Kasinga says. "Coke is modern, with it." Repp Kananga, a young Kenyan, wears his PHILADELPHIA T shirt self-consciously. "It looks like I'm kind of related to this States business," Kananga explained at a Nairobi outdoor cafe last month, "and I want to advertise...
...expanse of land as large and varied as the U.S., it is no surprise that there are many regional sandwich specialties. Philadelphia touts its cheese-steak, wafer-thin and watery beef with fried onions on a long roll, gooey with melted orange cheese. A barbecue sandwich in North Carolina means shredded pork in sauce piled on a hamburger bun with a mound of coleslaw. Maine and Massachusetts, with their abundance of fresh ocean shellfish, are celebrated for the lobster roll. Heaped with fresh chunks of briny lobster lightly bound with mayonnaise (celery is considered by most a heretical addition...