Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long hours spent at sporting events keeping statistics, most weekends devoted to job responsibilities, weary bus rides to places such as Hamilton, N.Y., and Philadelphia, publishing weekly press releases, keeping track of all team's statistics, answering pesky journalists' questions about the most trivial of facts and providing materials for the press at Harvard athletic events are just routine parts...
...University of Michigan, the 250 Chinese students studying there jumped into action: they purchased a fax machine. Daily summaries of Western news accounts and photographs were faxed to universities, government offices, hospitals and businesses in major cities in China to provide an alternative to the government's distorted press reports. The Chinese students traded fax numbers back home along the computer network that links them around the U.S. The fax brigades at Michigan were duplicated on many other campuses. "We want everyone to see that there's blood in the streets," says Sheng-Yu Huang, a chemistry student...
...guaranteed majority on condition that the next legislative elections, to be held in four years, are fully competitive and that the President is popularly elected by 1995. The union also extracted a number of other concessions, including legalization of the Roman Catholic Church and establishment of an opposition press...
...long ago, the catalog of crises that have recently afflicted the Soviet Union would have been buried in the recesses of the Kremlin, with much of the rest of the world none the wiser. Not anymore. With a newly emboldened press and oratorical skirmishing going on constantly in Moscow's new Congress of People's Deputies, an engrossed world knows practically everything...
Precisely what touched off the violence remained unclear, despite thorough glasnost-era reporting by the Soviet press and television. Some stories said the fighting was touched off by a dispute over the price of strawberries at a local market, while others maintained that the attacks were in retaliation for a fight last month in the tiny market town of Kuvasi...