Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strangely, you failed to report that CBS News stands by the substance of the broadcast. And though your reporter had been briefed by me and others about material proving the thrust of the broadcast, you failed to report any of it. I look forward to the day, after the litigation is over, when Americans who did not see the broadcast the first time around will have the opportunity to view it and determine for themselves whether charges of corrupt intelligence practices leveled not by us, but by former high-ranking intelligence officers from the military and the CIA, were...
Perhaps the strongest opinions, fair or unfair, about journalism are held by people who have been thrust into the news by their jobs or by extraordinary circumstances. Some of their views...
...house, to succeed him. In 1958 he produced a brilliant debut collection that introduced an A-line dress called the trapeze. It was an instantaneous success. The French, who invented the modern concept of a couturier, celebrated in the street. The boy wonder, tall, handsome and painfully shy, was thrust out on the balcony of the House of Dior to acknowledge the cheers...
...telephone bills after divestiture will depend on whether the user is an individual or a business, how many local and longdistance calls are made, over what distance and for how long. The entire philosophical underpinning of pricing phone services is changing, a departure much in line with the national thrust toward deregulation in many other fields. In essence, Americans are going to begin paying more and more of the full and true cost of phone services they use. At the same time, they will not pay as much for those they...
...authority over its own territory, some of which has been under the control of rebellious Kurdish nationalists, as well as seizing strategic chunks of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Tehran government claimed last week that its forces had captured 270 sq. mi. of Iraqi territory in the bloody week-old thrust, including several mountain strongholds...