Word: reports
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Since Wyoming had not elected a Democrat to Congress since 1976, a Thomas defeat would have been especially painful for the G.O.P. The high symbolic stakes made for a vituperative campaign. Thomas' supporters spread a false rumor that his Democratic opponent, State Senator John Vinich, had filed a falsified report about an automobile accident. Vinich may have blown the race with exaggerated ads accusing the Republican of being soft on crime...
...years old and the leader of all he surveys, yet for a moment last week George Bush looked like a schoolboy called before the principal to discuss his report card. Perched nervously on a beige sofa in Ronald Reagan's Los Angeles office, Bush held the tip of his tongue between his lips, smiling thinly as the old President blandly pronounced that the new President is "doing just fine...
...collaboration: "I am dissatisfied and somewhat disappointed with some of my fellow scientists who have done things too much in a hurry." Charles C. Baker, director of fusion research at Argonne National Laboratory, was blunter: "Calling press conferences and making claims of results without having a well-prepared technical report is not the way for a good, professional scientist to function...
...like any press credential, the cards also pose a potential threat to press freedom: if their use becomes required, they could become de facto licenses that would give the A.J.A. the power to determine who can report in the occupied territories. Until some foreign reporters complained recently, Israeli citizens working for overseas news organizations were not eligible for the A.J.A. card. Local Israeli reporters are still barred...
...special report prepared for the Cyprus sessions noted such messy problems within Anglicanism as opponents' refusing to recognize either women priests or priests ordained by female bishops. As for the Pope's letter, Archbishop Runcie soothingly characterized it as "only a matter of straight speaking between friends that can help the dialogue go forward." In England, Margaret Orr Deas, of the Movement for the Ordination of Women, complained that "the Roman Catholics are not giving anything away" in the negotiations, and she expects no concessions because John Paul is "an unrelenting man and firmly entrenched in his views." The Pope...