Word: though
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That day never came. Though United Press-which merged with the Hearst chain's International News Service in 1958 to form United Press International-has gained ground on Associated Press over the years, it has always been No. 2. Even worse, U.P.I. has lost $17 million in the past 18 years, including $2.5 million last year. (A.P. is a nonprofit cooperative and usually comes close to breaking even.) For years, U.P.I.'s possible demise was a popular taproom topic among journalists...
...present seems dismal enough. Though U.P.I.'s 850 reporters clack out almost 8 million words and figures a day, they are unable to match the sheer ubiquity of A.P., with 1,401 journalists. As a result, when editors are forced to cut back on their wire budgets, many drop U.P.I. in favor of the more comprehensive coverage provided by A.P. Some 1,365 U.S. newspapers belong to A.P., while 1,115 subscribe to U.P.I...
...Though quasi-journalistic sidelines account for 15% of U.P.I. revenues, most of the proceeds from the sale of stock will go toward improving news coverage, and competition with A.P. should heighten. "We feel strongly that the country needs two vital news services," says Beaton. Alas, U.P.I. last week was unable to upstage its rival on one major story, though it definitely had the edge on inside information. Because of a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that prohibits a company from advertising a stock offering, U.P.I. could not report news of its forthcoming partnership sale...
...president of the San Francisco Bar Association: "His opinions showed a sensitivity for civil liberties and a deep knowledge of constitutional law. He was a young man with a bright future." Obviously, whatever the outcome of the case against him, Halvonik's public career may be ruined (though the publicity might not harm his future as a private advocate in California...
...first time Bertolucci has unloaded the ideological baggage that seemed superfluous to The Conformist and Last Tango and overwhelmed 1900. Though the director's true subject has always been erotic passion, he has usually tried to obscure that fact by littering his movies with Marxist and Freudian bromides. There is no such posturing in Luna. Bertolucci deals directly with his real obsessions; his film is a lucid and uninhibited journey to the outer limits of human behavior...