Word: posting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khomeini, "We'll chop him up for dog meat-or maybe use him for target practice." Amir-Sadeghi was characterized by the Times as "the first person to give foreign correspondents accurate information about the Shah's plan to leave Iran"-and less generously by the Washington Post as "the son of the Shah's former chauffeur and a young man much given to verbal exaggeration...
...Muir in 1929 helped create Business Week, and in 1937 joined News-Week as its president. He changed the four-year-old magazine's name to Newsweek, emphasized more interpretative stories, introduced signed columns and international editions. Muir was named honorary chairman of the board when the Washington Post Co. bought the magazine...
...case is based on an Indiana criminal code provision adopted in 1977 permitting corporations to be charged with criminal acts; 22 other states allow this. Ford contended that it should not be tried ex post facto on a 1977 law for a car built in 1973 involving an accident in 1978. But the judge bought the prosecutor's argument that the charge was not based on the Pinto design fault, but rather on the fact that Ford had permitted the car "to remain on Indiana highways, knowing Full well its defects." Manufacturers, said the prosecutor, should be "on notice...
Commenting on the changes which the community and police have been resisting, 18-year veteran Sergeant Ralph Ross told the Washington Post last summer, "You have to understand one thing about this department; up until the mid-'70s, it was a known fact that if you came into P.G. County and made trouble the police would kick your head in. Simple as that. The county had that image and wanted it that way. The police were encouraged to be that way. But times have changes and that sort of thing wasn't allowed any more...
...this year's election, the county soundly rejected Kelly, returned two anti-desegregation spokesmen to positions of power and over-whelmingly approved a Proposition 13-style tax measure, prompting the Post to comment, "The voters seemed to be seeking a return to the days when life in Prince George's was simpler...