Word: reportedly
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...Hatfield claims Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972 but his father, former President George Bush, orchestrated a cover-up. The Bushes adamantly denied the accusation. Hatfield, it now seems, was doing some covering up of his own. St. Martin's Press recalled the book when a newspaper report revealed that the author is on parole after being convicted of trying to have his boss killed, a charge St. Martin's said it had confirmed. Hatfield initially maintained that he was being confused with someone of the same name, but then stopped commenting, on his lawyers' advice. Maybe...
...editor asked me as I talked to him on my cellular phone while walking a Manhattan street last week. Looking around, I counted almost one in five people similarly engaged in conversations on their cell phones. ABC's TV newsmagazine, 20/20, it seems, had just done a special report on the issue, once again fanning concerns that cell phones can cause cancer. He wanted to know what I thought...
After spending six years and millions of dollars, Carlo produced only an inconclusive report offering no more than suspicions of health risks. Even so, 20/20 accepted it as medical fact. "We have direct evidence of possible harm from cellular phones," he told ABC's correspondent, who cast Carlo as an ultraethical scientist breaking ranks with his bosses because they wouldn't let him tell the truth...
Great steps forward in technology and medicine--the LASIK procedure is undoubtedly one of them--will always carry some risks. Our patients need accurate information like your report in order to make an informed decision. JEFFREY D. NIGHTINGALE, M.D. New York City...
...report that in 1950 U.S. Army troops in Korea fired on civilians under the bridge at No Gun Ri did not come as a surprise to me [WORLD, Oct. 11]. I spent 26 months in the U.S. Army in Korea doing my mandatory military service. I've seen G.I.s in panic. And what's worse, when a few stupid G.I.s don't stop doing foolish, sometimes cruel things, the result can be murder and rape. YOON WONSUP Seoul...