Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embassy's consul, hearing the ruckus, came out to investigate. The man, now desperate, flashed his Soviet passport. No reaction. Next, he took out his military identification card. A glimmer of comprehension. The consul copied the Cyrillic letters and sent them upstairs to the CIA station chief. Minutes passed. No response. The distraught man exclaimed that he would be shot if they did not do something quickly. Then a CIA man, curious about the fuss, took one look at the card and promptly rushed to talk to his boss. Only then did the station chief come down and, with proper...
...Friday and the commuters crowding into the Central Square station had spent the past three hours dreaming of going home. Amidst the suits and briefcases sticky with sweat, a tall teenager and shorter companion stood, watching and waiting. When the moment was right, they seized it, slipping halfway under the turnstile, seemingly unnoticed by the people they were using as their cover. But the older one was too tall, or too lethargic from the heat. The token seller spotted him, wriggling through a pair of pinstriped legs...
...ferry docked, police seized Gonzalez and charged him with murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon (which had legally been sold to him for $22 by a Times Square souvenir shop). At the Staten Island police station the prisoner, who fled from Cuba in 1977 aboard a small boat, shouted, "The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit made me do it!" Authorities sent him to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn for psychiatric evaluation...
...workers can stay for a few days or more. France's Total, a petroleum refiner and marketer, takes about 650 people a year to a Club Med as a plum for good performance. Says Philippe Morot, a Total executive: "It is remarkable what work gas-station managers will do to win." Other corporate clients have included Japan's Sony and Nikon, as well as Harley-Davidson and Pizza Hut from the U.S. Trigano plans to step up efforts to attract American companies with a "Club Med Corporate" campaign that will appear in business magazines starting in September...
Writing a book is a way for television journalists to distance themselves from the ranks of the TelePrompTered hairdos--the "twinkies," as Linda Ellerbee calls them. Ellerbee, a Texan, began her career in Houston, where her irreverent approach to office routine was not appreciated. The CBS station in New York City was delighted to have a witty, outspoken reporter on its staff, and sent her out to cover general-assignment and humaninterest stories. Eventually, she was given the chance to operate heavier machinery at NBC. She wrote for and co-anchored Weekend and NBC News Overnight, feature- journalism shows that...