Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such a discouraging report might have caused grain futures to surge at the Chicago Board of Trade, but traders expected the worst and took the news in stride. Prices for corn and soybeans actually fell slightly the day after the report was released. Still, prices were far higher than before the drought got bad. Soybeans sold for $8.50 per bu., up from $6.92 in May, and corn was $2.87 per bu., compared with $2.02 three months...
...gathers from the leading Democrats that they really want judges who make policy and make it in a certain direction and I think that's what will happen if Gov. [Michael S.] Dukakis is elected," Bork said. The judge criticized Harvard Law School professors for signing a committee report opposing his nomination which Bork called "quite distorted...
...industry. The majority of the crimes, including fraudulent land deals, payouts to bogus borrowers and lavish living at depositors' expense, have been uncovered in Texas and California, where financial institutions grew especially fast in the early 1980s. But the problem is by no means restricted to those states. A report issued in January by the Comptroller of the Currency found that in 35% of the 189 U.S. bank failures from 1979 to 1987, fraud or insider abuse was "a significant factor." Among S and Ls, the malfeasance is even more pervasive. In testimony before Congress last year, representatives...
...American journalists who thought we were unusual. Most of them are corrupted by journalism school into dreary, humorless utopians out to save the world. They are Puritans who should stay on Plymouth Rock. Ghosts? The occult? We don't say these stories are true; we just report them." The methods tabloids use to substantiate their sometimes unlikely stories are often ingenious. To prove UFOs have been frolicking in Wisconsin, reporters will wrangle a policeman or pilot to say "Sure." And in a pinch, some editors have been known to put an authority on a subject in Eastern Europe to elude...
...normally look to my family for support when I need it." Dukakis also seized the opportunity to rise magnanimously above Reagan. "We all occasionally misspeak," he said. "I don't really think the President had to apologize." Gerald Plotkin, Dukakis' doctor since 1971, released a detailed three-page report pronouncing Dukakis "in excellent health and physical shape." Wrote Plotkin: "He has had no psychological symptoms, complaints or treatment." Before the week ended, Dukakis set aside his resistance to releasing medical records and made known everything in Plotkin's file. All that remained unreleased, Plotkin said, were prescriptions...