Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly a half year 1100 workers in the Dorchester and Fenway areas of Boston have known they will lose their jobs when two Sears plants close their doors this winter...
About 60 of the 1100 local Sears workers who will lose their jobs this winter accepted the offer of free courses, officials said. "Anyone who had an interest" was admitted to the classes, said Robert J. Santuchi, Sears' personnel manager for the Boston area plants...
...State for Defense, told Parliament that "in consequence of aggressive measures by Indian troops in the Siachen area, serious clashes took place." Indian figures for Pakistani dead were "highly exaggerated," he claimed. Indian and Pakistani officials said last week that a cease-fire seems to be holding. But with winter coming, that may be more a matter of necessity than goodwill...
...since Charles Foster Kane's immortal "Rosebud" has a deathbed utterance caused such a stir. CIA Director William Casey, partly paralyzed and gravely ill following brain surgery, was in Washington's Georgetown University Hospital last winter when an unexpected visitor entered his room. It was Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey off and on for four years and had somehow slipped through CIA security for one last encounter. So Woodward says in his new book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 (Simon & Schuster; $21.95), relating that the interview lasted just four minutes and Casey...
...These are all slow-moving developments, of course, and probably no single headline ever announced any one of them. Indeed, even political news often is hard to judge all at once. On the day after the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in 1917 -- one of Daniel's top ten events -- that was not the lead story in the New York Times. Instead, the main headline dealt with Tammany Hall's victory in New York elections that week. Journalism, as it has been said, is just the first draft of history. Sometimes, though, historians have similar troubles with the second draft...