Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shrugging off the allegations at another press conference yesterday afternoon, Hyatt denied that he had been fired from ABC, and said he had quit the job following disputes over strategy, according to Grover. "We're treating this with a great deal of levity," said Grover, comparing the reports to tabloid sensationalism sensationalism...
Three weeks ago Gillberg publicly charged el Sayed with lying about his credentials, and a national furor erupted. HE LIED read a banner headline in Expressen, a Stockholm tabloid. Afraid that his new notoriety would hurt Fermenta, el Sayed agreed to give up day-to-day management of the company. But he is hardly ruined: his 43% share of Fermenta's stock is still worth nearly $350 million...
...that does not have to worry about the printers' unions is Today, which debuts next week. Today represents something completely new for Britain: an electronically reproduced daily paper with four-color pages. Founded by Eddy Shah, a successful purveyor of provincial giveaway newspapers, Today will be a 44-page tabloid heavy on domestic news and sports. By setting up his state-of-the-art plant three miles from Fleet Street, Shah skirted the printers entirely, and instead is negotiating a no-strike deal with his employees. Today's staff, including deliverers, numbers only 600, anorectic by the overstuffed standards...
...been imprisoned in the East for espionage. Usually such prisoners are traded in secret, often in the foggy predawn hours. Last week, however, the western end of the 128-meter Glienicker Bridge was teeming with reporters and camera crews. They were eagerly staked out for what the West German tabloid Bild Zeitung melodramatically heralded as "the biggest human swap ever...
...threatening to shut down his papers, Maxwell announced that the unions had agreed to lay off one-third of his newspaper group's 6,000 staffers. All eyes now are on Eddie Shah, a feisty publisher of newspapers in northern England who plans to launch a national, computer-printed tabloid this spring. By signing a no-strike contract with the electricians' union and skirting other unions, Shah boasts that his expenses will be a small fraction of Fleet Street's. If Shah's paper, Today, is a success, his fellow proprietors are likely to applaud him as much as they...