Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...providing good low-cost dwellings for the nation's poor and near poor. Over the past three decades, Washington has poured some $6.5 billion into housing subsidies and urban renewal, committed at least another $13 billion as yet unspent to the same controversial programs. Yet one recent White House report estimated that 8,300,000 Americans still cannot afford a decent place to live...
...invited to the committee meeting some time ago to report on the progress of enforcing the new parietal hours. Hanify said the system is considered inadequate by students, tutors and masters. "HUC finds it extremely difficult to make any kind of suggestions about enforcement...when attitudes toward the system are very negative...
Assuming, though, for the sake of discussion that a newspaper could afford to hire a newsroomful of Norman Mailers, then could provide space for an 84,240-word report on the two conventions written to fit the monthly deadline of a magazine, there remains at least one more problem. What if a reporter launches himself into a "subjective" account that doesn't seem "true" to whoever is entrusted to pass judgment upon truth and rightness? And if the reporter has aligned himself with the "wrong" side, who is to decide that this is so? The logic in attempting to provide...
...most ambitious Polk project, sociological profiles of entire cities, was started four years ago. After last year's Detroit riots, for example, Polk supplied the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders with data about the 12th Street area, a focal point of the upheaval. Polk was able to report, among other things, that in each block along 12th Street there were 26 or more households headed by a woman, a fact that suggested many broken homes. Now, Polk has contracts with ten cities, from Pittsburgh to Asheville, N.C., to supply urban statistical data. Since it already has most...
...convolutes and lunges, the Japanese admirals clutching each other for support in the main control center up in the head as the structure rocks and creaks. And when the golf shot is on its way the navymen get to their feet and peer out through the eyes and report: 'A shank! A shank! My God, we've hit another shank...