Word: posts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first taste of battle the morning of July 3. The ship had just skirmished with Iranian gunboats when the Airbus was spotted, and all hands were already on alert because of intelligence warnings of a possible Iranian terrorist attack over the July 4 weekend. According to the Washington Post, agitated crew members even fumbled the complex firing sequence several times before launching the missiles...
...Brits were kids in a candy store," says Malcolm Balfour, a South African by birth and former Enquirer editor who now works out of Lantana for the New York Post and Bild Zeitung, a West German daily. "The Enquirer meant plastic cards that would take you to the best hotels in the world." Enquirer Owner Generoso Pope Jr. was never satisfied with his staff and fired reporters often. Nonetheless, seduced by the sunshine, many of the dismissed staffers stayed on in the Lantana area, working as free-lancers for other tabloids or mass-circulation dailies abroad. Some found lucrative opportunities...
...post-Watergate world, we have all become suckers for smoking guns and Murphy exploits this weakness in his readers to the hilt. His telling of the confirmation hearings is breathtaking, with Strom Thurmond, Sam Ervin and others titans of the Senate's conservative wing desperately trying to pin down their cagey witness, while Murphy treats his readers to the bombshells that his inquisitors never could draw...
...This incident proves you can't tell Congress anything without it leaking," said a senior White House aide last week, after the Washington Post reported that President Reagan had authorized unspecified covert action to help oust Panamanian Leader Manuel Antonio Noriega. Not so, said both Democrat David Boren, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and ranking Republican William Cohen. The two Senators got questions from reporters even before the committee was briefed on the finding. That, they charged, meant the Administration had divulged the information to "set up" the committee as being unable to keep secrets...
...sums in Japan, where in most firms only high-ranking executives earn more than $70,000 a year. Unlike many Japanese companies, Nomura does not promote employees solely on the basis of seniority. If a young salesman or trader shows unusual dedication, he can move rapidly to a managerial post. Says a competitor: "For many people, it is painful and very shameful to see older men working under younger bosses. But that's the way it goes at Nomura...