Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women took to the streets once again. As they saw it, the new Islamic regime was threatening to deny them freedoms they thought they had already won. TIME'S Jane O'Reilly went to Iran for a look at the "women's revolution." Her report...
...creating investments and into activities that may or may not be worthwhile for society but that create no new wealth. For example, the metals, paper, utilities, chemical and other industries have had to spend large sums for mandatory environmental protection equipment instead of machines and plants. In its annual report last week, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee deplored the fact that industry in 1977 had to spend $6.9 billion for pollution-abatement equipment "that does not contribute directly to the production of measured output...
...large increase in earnings brings more complaints than cheers when citizens are up in arms over soaring prices, workers are pressing for higher wages, and the White House is looking for someone, or something, to blame for its losing battle against inflation. In these circumstances, last week's report of an earnings surge created a serious political dilemma for President Carter and a public relations migraine for business...
Since it is easier to phone somebody than to look something up, the hot line may prove more of a debilitating crutch than a boon to education. But so far, the hot-line faculties report, Kansas students have not thrown their Fowlers to the winds. The service has led to more, rather than less, concern about learning usage...
Winston Churchill packed a pistol when he covered the Boer War for London's Morning Post, and it was hardly a farewell to arms when Gun Fancier Ernest Hemingway went off to report the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance. But to most front-line journalists nowadays, carrying a weapon while on assignment is a grievous offense against professional ethics. It also means forfeiture of a journalist's status under international law as a neutral noncombatant, and it encourages troops to consider all journalists as fair targets...