Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under enormous pressure to dispose quickly of a complicated issue, the council demonstrated its confusion and ineptitude. Vellucci voted against his own proposal for negotiations. Danehy amended not the deal with the developer, but a line item estimate in an appraisal report. Graham totally lost track of what she was voting on. Overall, most councilors showed a low level of understanding of real estate economics, and therefore were unprepared to negotiate aggressively on behalf of the city...
...hire one or more "straw buyers," local Southerners paid as little as $100 for the use of their legitimate IDs to make the purchases. Through such means, gun smugglers often buy a dozen weapons or more at a time. Though gun dealers in some states are required to report multiple purchases, federal agents say sellers do not always cooperate...
Wallerstein's report has had mixed reviews from other researchers. Many do not believe that enduring damage from divorce is as pervasive as she indicates. Says psychologist Jo Anne Pedro-Carroll of the University of Rochester in New York: "It would be a disservice to families who have adjusted to the changes in their lives to suggest that there will inevitably be long-term trauma for all children." Experts point out that the study involved a small number of families and that there was no group of intact families to provide a statistical comparison. They note also that children tend...
...family breakup is always a shock to the children, but a provocative report suggests that a disturbingly large number of youngsters are still feeling the trauma up to 15 years later...
...spirit of glasnost is infusing the Soviet press, and its new, muckraking style of journalism already has some officials up a tree. When the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta published a report last year that meat producers were breaking the law by putting protein additives and other impurities in their sausage, the paper was promptly sued by a group of Moscow meatpackers, who demanded a retraction...