Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson, greatest of the team's several great players, emerged from the grand-jury room one day; the sports-page paragraph that almost annually recounted Buck Weaver's latest pathetic attempt to clear his name (he was not part of the conspiracy but knew about it, failed to report it and was punished with the rest...
...would be good to report that Sayles, who likes to portray groups under pressure (Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan), has solved all these issues, but he has not. Based on Eliot Asinof's definitive book of the same name, Eight Men Out lacks either the spacious simplicity of legend or the patient detailing of realism. And Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown...
...study is likely to ease the pressure for more controls. Said Robert Kirby, a Los Angeles money manager who has attacked program trading in the past: "If the numbers stay like this, it may go away as an issue." Should it not, critics will know whom to blame. The report showed that more than half of all program trading was carried out by just three firms: Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns...
These misreadings of radar data were attributed to "human errors" made by the ship's crew. But Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci insisted they were not crucial in triggering Rogers' decision to act. Contrary to the implications of an earlier, leaked version of the report, Carlucci said, no one will be punished, because "these mistakes were not due to negligence or culpability...
...false reading? The report cites "stress, task fixation and unconscious distortion of data" by the crew as likely causes. Whatever the IFF signal, Crowe said, Rogers would not have relied on it alone, since Iranian military aircraft have been known to use Mode III to hide their identity. The report said the Airbus was not using its normal weather radar, which would have conclusively identified it as civilian...