Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More recently, Vance privately displayed some uncustomary anger in the neutron bomb flap. He "went through five roofs," reports an aide, when other advisers pressured Carter to counter a partly inaccurate New York Times report that the President had decided against production of the weapon by immediately announcing that he had resolved only to postpone production. Vance argued for a week's delay in which to brief affected NATO allies. He was given only a few days, but it was time enough to get out advance word and limit the diplomatic damage...
...major themes wrong. Emmerich perpetrated an enormous falsehood about one of the central points of the lecture, in quoting DeVore's summary of early findings about primate social structure involving male-dominated dominance hierarchies, male leadership, and male genetic continuity. He failed to report that a few minutes later, DeVore emphasized that every one of these seemingly sexist findings has been found to be completely untrue or true only when extremely qualified. DeVore noted in the balance of his talk--repeatedly--that societies that he and others have studied have a continuity based on female descent and kinship, that males...
Vogt quoted a passage from Bok's annual report in which Bok states, "If we are serious about helping students overcome parochialism, perhaps the time has come to review the experience of other institutions in encouraging study abroad in order to discover whether some suitable program can be devised for Harvard...
...solution? "Students must experience responsibility where others are really depending on them," Glanz argued. She advocated counting homework as a significant part of grades, failing students when they deserve it, and assigning students to lead class discussions. Some 700 copies of her 43-page report were distributed to teachers, students and parents. So far, there have been some student criticisms. But on the whole, Glanz says, "they're glad someone finally said some of the things I said...
...attempt to look fresh, the paper more often looked merely gray, with a static layout and a paucity of eye-catching pictures. The Trib often seemed overloaded with wire copy and canned columnists, undersupplied with compelling staff-written stories. Probably the paper's most memorable scoop was a report that David Frost had gone to San Clemente to edit Richard Nixon's memoirs. The David Frost in question turned out to be a copy editor of that name in the employ of the book's publisher...