Word: reportedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While Chairman Hua was cleaning up in Eastern Europe last week, his countrymen were having a little trouble with their own mop-up campaign back home. The press and radio-which normally tell only the good news-were reporting daily from the provinces that the long-running effort to wipe out the influence of the "Gang of Four" was encountering some unpleasant resistance. It was "shocking and intolerable," said one report, that a number of cadres had failed to root out all the allies of Mao Tsetung's wife Chiang Ch'ing and her cohorts. There were still...
...Italian officials report that they have found more evidence of links between Italy's terrorist Red Brigades and West Germany's more sophisticated Red Army Faction. Among the clues...
...late '40s, males had made a strong comeback and once again outnumbered females. But now, according to a demographic report, Britain is on the brink of a serious "bachelor bulge." Tucked away in a few paragraphs of a 100-page government study is startling information: in the 20-to 24-year age group, British males now outnumber females by 1.3 million to 789,000. In the prime marriage years, 20 to 34, the ratio is even more lop sided: there are 800,000 extra males. For the rest of the century, women will hold the upper hand...
...other result would have set a dangerous precedent for broadcasters who report on violence or writers who portray it in fiction. Yet NBC has been justly criticized for airing Born Innocent at 8 p.m., when many impressionable youngsters can be expected to tune in. Editorialized the Washington Post, "One still feels a sense of dissatisfaction here, as the true justice of Miss Niemi's case seems to hang somewhere between her suffering and the Tightness and necessity of the First Amendment." The courts may not be the proper place to resolve it, but the controversy over violence...
...aggressive and highly prized trophies in the sea. New discoveries about the swordfish's feeding and fighting habits have resulted in record catches in the Gulf Stream, off the Florida coast. TIME Miami Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury joined a group of swordfishermen in pursuit of the broadbill. His report...