Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social contract among former spouses and lovers not to talk because they know so much. When that pact is broken, the results can be devastating. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, an able Senator for two terms, lost his seat to challenger Paul Tsongas amid divorce proceedings in 1978, damaged by press reports that focused on the breakup of his marriage...
When he reached the press room, Wesbecker shot himself with the pistol and fell face down in a pool of blood. Survivors counting bodies found seven dead and 13 wounded, five critically -- the biggest toll by a mass killer since another nut with an AK-47 sprayed a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard and killed five children last January. Investigators said Wesbecker, a former pressman, had harbored a grudge against his ex-employers since going on total disability for mental illness. Said Joe White, a Standard-Gravure employee: "This guy's been talking about this for a year. He's paranoid...
...City of Nets into a collection of pseudo movie sets, illuminated by camera lights. "I haven't made the references to Los Angeles too explicit, because that demythologizes it. I set Mahagonny in a film studio, but there is no attempt & to have real scenery. I don't press too hard...
Toward the back of the plane, one of the press photographers was sliding lower in his seat, clutching his stomach, turning gray. His worried colleagues were at a loss to help him until someone remembered there was a doctor on board -- and summoned the Prime Minister...
...fast, Exxon. While workers were filling planes and buses on the way home, Alaska Governor Steve Cowper and state environment commissioner Dennis Kelso called a press conference in Valdez. They named the "dirty dozen" beaches that they charge are still fouled with oil and announced their own modest $21 million winter cleanup program, at least part of which will be paid for by Exxon. The message to the company was clear: You didn't get the job done, and you're leaving too early...