Word: podunk
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...coverage, the AP and the UPI are careful to present the official version of news stories in the blandest and least provocative manner. Their philosophy in its most banal formulation is: aim at the lowest common denominator of public interest and avoid alientating either the Chicago Tribune or the Podunk Gazette. Investigative reporting that might raise hackles anywhere is, of course, out of the question: how Hersh managed to break the MyLai story while working for the AP is one of the great unanswered questions of our time...
...lonely grey-beards who comb sports statistics in places like Podunk, Kansas, are not apt to be upset by the Crimson lacrosse team's ninth place rating in New England, but it is with the stigma that the stickmen journey to New Hampshire today for an all-important tilt with fourth-ranked Dartmouth...
...When Ohio's Charles Vanik argued that the 25 largest cities in the U.S. would receive only one-quarter of the $5 billion, Connally bluntly confessed: "This is not a bill to relieve the urban crisis." The Administration, said Michigan Democrat Martha Griffiths, wants to give money to Podunk in order to win as many votes as possible. "Podunk is part of America," snapped Connally. "It is impossible to devise a formula that will answer the problems of all 38,000 political subdivisions of this country...
Rising costs now squeeze everyone from chancellor to freshman, at every place from mighty Harvard to lowly Podunk. Because many universities had grown fat and pampered, the first effects of the new austerity have been largely positive. Grandiose construction plans, harebrained experiments and trivial research-all these are being shelved or abolished. But only so much efficiency can be wrung out of a basically inefficient system without altering its nature...
...quotas have forced airlines to spread flights more evenly throughout the day and night, despite the public's preference for departures at dinnertime. The flights that the airlines have shifted to off-hours are mostly those headed for smaller towns; thus, a traveler destined for Podunk or Puddle Junction may have to go at 10 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. The quotas also sharply reduce the number of private-plane landings during busy hours...