Word: purveyors
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...despite an 8% drop in time spent listening to radio overall. One reason: NPR spent much of the 1990s bulking up its news staff, adding 28 reporters and correspondents and opening 31 offices, with the aim of becoming more of a primary news source rather than a purveyor of features a few days late under the guise of "analysis." The 9/11 attacks were a watershed. NPR News broadcast for a record 90 hours straight, adding 2.6 million weekly listeners, and it has gained 270,000 more listeners since then. Its two big news shows--Morning Edition and All Things Considered...
...pleasure in bringing order and perfection to even the most boring and neglected nooks--like the laundry room. And why not? After all, Americans produce a quarter ton of dirty laundry per person every year and collectively do 35 billion loads of laundry, according to Procter & Gamble, the leading purveyor of detergents. Every second 1,100 loads are started in households across the country, with U.S. women--yes, still mostly women--devoting seven to nine hours each week to keeping the family clothes clean. Now many are finding a way to make the time enjoyable and more useful...
After having not been invited to his only son’s graduation from Harvard Law School (HLS) last June, porn purveyor Al Goldstein, publisher of SCREW magazine, has pleaded guilty to harassing and stalking one of his four ex-wives, served 10 days in Rikers Island prison in New York City on unrelated charges and accused his son, Jordan Ari Goldstein, of stealing $880,000 worth of watches from him. “Truthfully I am a broken man,” he tells FM during a phone interview. “My son made me a broken...
Justin Sewell didn't set out to become the voice of workplace cynicism--or of Despair Inc., a $1 million-a-year purveyor of satiric business maxims. Nor did he foresee that corporate leaders from Ken Lay to Sandy Weill would send him so many customers. It just worked out that...
...Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby have spoken with the council about a range of student issues—from SpringFest to the Core curriculum—showing both that they are open to our opinion and that they see the council as the purveyor of it. But the council has been hampered in representing us because the administration has been bombarded by student opinion from all sides. We are much easier to write off as whining kids when we can’t even agree among ourselves...