Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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KENTUCKY An Extra-Special Delivery...
...evolve around the hours of the night shift at UPS." This means classes will be held between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m., allowing students to work through the night and sleep during the day. Classes cease between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, the company's peak delivery period. Special dorms will be built to accommodate the night-working students. Tuition will be free, with the state and other sources picking up half the cost and UPS the other half if "the student completes his or her work obligation...
...Campbell and Schiffer only bothered to walk one catwalk each at last month's Milan fashion shows. Evangelista has retired, and Turlington is a student at New York University. Crawford, after co-starring in one bad Hollywood film, is trying to be a TV star, but her recent ABC special, Sex with Cindy Crawford, came in last in the ratings for its time period...
Reviewing the coverage of this year's White House scandals set me to thinking about the state of investigative reporting in America. These days investigative reporting has largely given way to and is confused with reports of investigations. No matter that prosecutors (special and not) and their targets have made selective leaks a part of their strategy. Ditto the public relations gurus who are so effective at leaking on behalf of their corporate and celebrity clients. We in the media are too often happy accepting credit for disclosing that which has been dumped in our laps...
...weeks I am happy with the results, although we also have some scalps on our belt (this summer's infamous Tailwind story immediately comes to mind) that I wish weren't there. But along with the scoops and the stories of the week, we have devoted substantial resources to special reports that take you behind the headlines so you can understand how our society really works...