Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report issued last week by the National Association of Private Colleges and Universities noted that the number of schools facing financial difficulties increased from 20 per cent in 1975-76, to 34 per cent...
Peres: I beg your pardon. I say that I raised the question, and I will report to you privately. You have not heard my report...
...from behind, wrestled him and tore his jacket. Though the policemen had no right to enter the embassy grounds, it was later claimed that they had mistaken the American for a Soviet citizen Smith was the Foreign Service officer who had been assigned by the U.S. to observe and report on Shcharansky's trial...
Finally, in 1969, Steptoe and Edwards announced that they had done the same thing with human eggs. The report caused a worldwide sensation and drew considerable fire, particularly from conservative churchmen. Trying to allay fears that he was actually attempting to create babies outside the womb, Steptoe insisted that his true goal was quite different. Said he: "All that I am interested in is how to help women who are denied a baby because their tubes are incapable of doing their small part...
Churcher's carefully worded story was scarcely noticed by the public. But a similar report a day later by Britain's Oldharn Evening Chronicle caught the attention of the sensation-seeking National Enquirer. Within 24 hours, half a dozen reporters left the Enquirer's Lantana, Fla., headquarters and arrived on Steptoe's doorstep to buy worldwide rights to the story of the test-tube baby. When Steptoe hesitated, the Floridians looked to other sources. According to London's Sunday Times, the Enquirer team tried to buy details from nurses at Oldham and District General Hospital...