Word: wiring
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...pursue nature's floods and disasters. A latticework of such reporting all around the world is gathered by a jointly owned collective, the Associated Press, and its rival United Press International. At a relentless high-speed rate of 1,200 words a minute, 24 hours a day, the wire services supply the printed press, give radio disc jockeys their "rip and read" news, and alert television producers where to dispatch their camera crews...
From 9 a.m. until NBC's Nightly News goes on the air, John Chancellor keeps his own close watch on the A.P., U.P.I, and Reuters wires, and believes that network news owes much of its credibility to the fact that they (the A.P. in particular) are "so quick in catching their own errors." It wouldn't be fair to call network news parasitic (it pays for the wire services, and spots its own people at a few conspicuous places to film stories and to personalize the news), but the dependency is deep. If so much of the daily...
...aftermath of the Israeli raid, U.S. policy became a high-wire act aimed on the one hand at preserving the U.S. position with moderate Arab countries and on the other hand at demonstrating both displeasure with and support for Israel. "Making the best we could of a terrible situation," as a senior White House official put it, Washington agreed to the strong language in the U.N. resolution to placate Arab anger. Said the official: "We worked very, very hard on the wording of this resolution in order to maintain a dialogue and our credibility with the moderate Arabs. We also...
...There, inside the barbed wire, I came across this gift for sharing the happiness of others. I had always noticed that people's faces light up when they are watching some little wild animal that has strayed into a built-up area. How their faces are transformed...
...longer. He burst into a four-length lead. Said Martens: "He just dragged me out front." When Pleasant Colony finally made his move, it was too little, too late. Highland Blade closed to finish second by a neck, and Pleasant Colony was fading as he came to the wire 1½ lengths behind the leader. Summing, who paid $17.80 to win, finished in 2 min. 29 sec., one of the slower times in the 113-year history of the Belmont...