Word: reporter
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...world's financial institutions but of the world press as well. The dizzying swiftness of the collapse, its global dimension, the complexity of the underlying economic issues -- everything about it challenged journalism's ability to distill meaning out of fast-breaking news. So I am gratified to report that TIME's coverage of Black Monday has earned a John Hancock Award for Excellence, one of the most respected U.S. prizes for business and financial journalism. The citation lauded "The Crash," our Nov. 2, 1987, package of cover stories, for examining "why the crash occurred, where the financial markets were headed...
Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov took this line in March when he met Carlucci in Berne, Switzerland, for the first extended get-together between American and Soviet defense chiefs. Carlucci's report: "I said, 'Fine, I hear you. But I do not see that ((change in doctrine)) reflected in force structure, and I do not see it reflected in your activities around the world. Until we do, it behooves us not to change our current policy.' " If the Soviets someday suit action to words, a mutual reduction in conventional forces as well as nuclear weapons could finally save both sides some...
...students on track, Congress in 1965 passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, sending a back-to- basics message that it hoped would improve achievement in math and other subjects. Last week the results of such efforts were totted up in a newly released study titled The Mathematics Report Card -- Are We Measuring Up? Its assessment of the performance of U.S. high school students in 1986: "Dismal...
...chairman of the President' s AIDS commission releases a final draft report and criticizes the White House for foot dragging...
...country expects to reap about $2 billion from an anticipated 3 million visitors. These numbers still pale beside the 7 million tourists who flock each year to neighboring Greece, a country that boasts about a fifth of Turkey's population of 55 million. But, according to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, tourism in Turkey is growing faster than in any of the two dozen other OECD countries surveyed. The report concludes that earnings from Turkish tourism increased 215% between 1981 and 1986. Japan was a distant second, showing a 95% growth in tourist earnings...