Word: warranting
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...second response is a sort of justification for the current system of prioritization. There is not enough reader interest in certain sports to warrant more extensive coverage, editors claim. "Also, we can't force anyone to write a story. So we are limited by writer's interests, as well," Greene explains. He did concede that in obvious cases, when editors feel that a story must be written and no one is willing to take it up, an executive will step in to write the story himself...
...game of waiting in the wings, of playing at hearts, broken then mended, of rehearsing life, falling but protected. But the news out of Jonesboro, Ark., last week was a monstrous anomaly: a boundary had been crossed that should not have been. It was a violation terrible enough to warrant waking the President of the U.S. at midnight on his visit to Africa, robbing him of sleep till daylight. It was news horrifying enough to cause parents all over America to wonder if they were doing enough to wall away their children from the bad angels that can steal into...
...Memorial Drive resident was arrested in Holyoke Center for possession of a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest. The suspect also had an outstanding warrant for his arrest...
...Beckett denied that the structural problems are severe enough to warrant building an entirely new stadium...
...sister Josephine Abbott, from whom he had embezzled the $275,000. After her husband's death, Willey lashed out at Lanasa. "She called me at 3 in the morning and said I killed her husband," he says. "She called two or three times until we got the warrant saying that she couldn't call us." Still, Willey's famous temper (her nickname "Irish" was on her license plate) would not be aimed at the President. Just days after he had allegedly groped her, the widow bragged to friends that he would attend Ed's funeral...