Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relative inattention to women's health seems a contradiction, given the state's emphasis on childbearing. Yet gynecologic care is lacking. New mothers tell of unsanitary conditions and inadequate care. "I was at one of the best maternity hospitals in Moscow, but it was dirty," complains a 29-year-old woman. "The mothers all had caked breasts, and the toilet was filthy." Adds an employee of a maternity house in the capital: "Women in labor are treated like cattle. There's one midwife for every 15 women." Alexander Baranov, a Deputy Minister of Health, admitted in a recent newspaper interview...
...Poveromo goes fishing, he doesn't fool around. Entering precise coordinates into the computerized navigation system of his 26-ft. sport- fishing boat, the Miami-based writer speeds directly toward a favorite haunt, a stretch of the Atlantic three miles southeast of Fort Lauderdale. When the computer beeps to tell him he is approaching the spot, Poveromo flicks on a bread-box-size electronic instrument, his "fish finder." By sending sound waves into the water, the machine, operating much like a radar device, probes for objects beneath the surface. The findings are recorded by a stylus that moves across...
...Soviet Union have just about reached a strategic-arms-reduction agreement, an achievement that will be at the center of next week's Moscow summit. It is a tough subject, but one worth a few minutes' extra attention, and we don't think anyone can tell it better than Talbott, the author of two books on arms control. Not far beyond that story comes Profile, a department we introduced six months ago to provide word portraits of compelling personalities. This week's Profile, written by Washington Correspondent Ted Gup, is about North Carolina's often contentious, always colorful Senator Jesse...
Meese believes he can defy history. He still does not quite understand what he has done wrong, how he has transgressed. His voice over the telephone is cheery. "If you ask people around the country what it is that Ed Meese did wrong, few could tell you," he insists, booming into the line. "There are a lot of people out to get Ronald Reagan. One way is to get those close to him. The closer you are to Ronald Reagan, the more part of his policies you are, the greater a target you become. And the more resistant...
...editor used to tell me that column inches on the sports page reflected number of fans in the stands, and that if I thought about it, the so-called big teams probably deserved even more coverage, relative to minor sports, than we accorded them...