Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only seven times in the past 16 years has TIME stepped back from its responsibility to the reader for a comprehensive presentation of the week's news to devote the bulk of an issue to a single special subject. This is such an occasion, an unabashed (mostly), eclectic and breezy celebration in stories and illustrations of what America does best, either in the view of Americans or as perceived by the rest of the world. The difference in perspective can be quite startling; see, for example, People...
...kick out of paying for his groceries at the local Lucky Store in San Mateo, Calif. Even before Lucky's computerized check-out system has finished scanning the bar codes on his coffee, beer and bread, Miller has run his bank card through the system's magnetic strip reader, punched in his personal identification number and poised his finger above a button marked AMOUNT...
Sperber is neither a subtle reader of Murrow's prose nor, despite her Fulbright-scholar background in political science, a decisive analyst of his ideology. She does evoke the shy, moody, sometimes preening yet fiercely loyal man who inspired such admiration and affection. Still, this should not be the conclusive Murrow biography...
...response the council is starting a $500,000 education campaign to discourage young people from drinking. Even third-graders are getting the message. Weekly Reader, the nation's leading school newspaper, tells the story this month of Robbie the Racoon, who disdainfully pours out a beer offered by his friend's big brother...
Perhaps scholars ought to reveal sources of funding for the reasons Professor Hoffmann offers. But I disagree with Professor Hoffmann that "concealment (of sources of funding) deprives them (readers and students) of an important element in evaluating research." Quite the contrary, the source of funding is not important in evaluating research. Again it is the work itself that matters. If we should reveal sources of funding, why not also membership in any political organization that has an interest in a particular issue? Or should we make obligatory an ideological autobiography to inform the reader about the axes about...