Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the expert on the Soviet economy agreed to be interviewed by correspondents Alexander Vasinsky and Alexander A. Shalnev from Izvestia, the official Soviet government daily, he felt the changes in the Soviet press which have been spurred by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's glasnost policies would make the interviewers more evenhanded...
Trailing 32-21, Harvard went to the full-court press and racked up eight unanswered points. Duke 32, Harvard...
Journalists usually report the news, not make it, but every so often a story helps make history. Last week TIME received the Overseas Press Club award for the best general-magazine article for its interview last October with P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat (in the judges' view, "almost surely one factor in the opening of a new U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue") and for the cover story seven weeks later on the start of that dialogue. Also honored was photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, who received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for capturing "the chaos and panic provoked by a terrorist attack...
...problems, ranging from gang warfare to freeway gridlock. "We'll try not to let ((Bradley)) forget he's participating in an election, not a coronation," promised the newspaper. That threat did not sit well with Bradley. The Herald Examiner found itself shut out of the mayor's office: no press releases, no phone conversations, no personal contact -- an invitation, if there ever was one, for reporters to start scraping away at the Teflon. Result: three weeks before the election, the paper began running articles about the mayor's financial dealings. He is currently under investigation by city, state and federal...
...last month Linda Hiwot, a Brooklyn junior high school teacher, got a surprise when she phoned her bank for a credit-card balance. Instead of the familiar human teller, she was answered by a computer-generated voice that told all callers with Touch-Tone phones to "press 1 now," thus beginning a series of steps that would eventually lead to her balance. When she called the IRS about an overdue tax check, another computer voice directed her to "push 9" for refunds. Even a local department store had acquired a robot operator, which like an overeager clerk insisted on taking...