Word: regular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...female business travelers and the lobbying efforts of the BWTC, the complaints are being heard. To attract female guests, several hotel chains have introduced new features -- some quaint, some useless, but many very welcome. Crest Hotels now offers "Lady Crest" rooms. The redesigned suites are more softly decorated than regular executive rooms, and come equipped with hair dryers, makeup mirrors, women's magazines, skirt hangers, irons and ironing boards, and an expanded range of bathroom toiletries. Similarly, Ramada takes care to assign women to specially outfitted rooms in well-lighted areas, and will not put through telephone calls unless they...
...issues galvanize public opinion more than terrorism, and few journalistic devices can tap those feelings more succinctly than an opinion poll. This week we decided that our cover story on the hostage crisis in Lebanon needed an accurate reading of popular thought, so we asked our regular polling firm, Connecticut-based Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, to conduct a survey. On one day, 25 interviewers telephoned 500 people at random and asked them 22 questions for an average of six minutes. The results were put into computers and tabulated, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5% taken into account...
Most news organizations, including TIME, impose no blanket restrictions on outside political activity so long as it is unrelated to a reporter's regular field. But others frown on any political advocacy. The Times, which plans to clarify its policy, declines to "explicitly say that journalists can't participate in a movement that is far afield from their beats," says assistant managing editor Warren Hoge. "But I sure wish they wouldn't." The Post takes a more hard-line position: its reporters are discouraged from engaging in any political activities, including community affairs, regardless of what they cover. Many Post...
...like a roller coaster ride like at Coney Island, and I enjoyed that. You prepare yourself for the worst. But it was really just like a rough regular landing," said passenger Glenn Porter of New York...
Levine describes IEM as a "boot camp," with a 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. schedule during the week and half-days on Saturdays. Comparing the program to the regular degree programs at the Ed School, Levine says that the degree programs can be compared to West Point for soldiers, while IEM is a war college for generals...