Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couldn't happen here, or could it? As President Germany, where he honored Nazi SS troops, it's surprising that some liberal Ed Schooler didn't suggest all the Jewish students, putting them behind barbed wire and branding them with inventory numerals to demonstrate the realities of the Holocaust to Reagan's ruling class...
Reporters from the wire services, local television stations, The Boston Globe, and even the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) have asked the Harvard New Office to explain the debate on campus as to whether Reagan's achievements as president are great enough to earn him an honorary degree from the premier educational institution in the land...
...newspaper jargon, the money woes of United Press International are what is known as a running story. Stained by red ink for two decades, the nation's second-largest wire service (800 client newspapers and 3,300 broadcast stations, vs. 1,260 papers and 5,700 stations for the Associated Press) was sold to a group of investors in 1982 for $1. Despite wage and staff cutbacks, U.P.I. remained in delicate health; as payroll checks began bouncing in March, Owners Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler agreed to surrender most of their shares to the company's creditors and employees. Even...
...wire service's latest crisis came when Foothill Capital Corp., a Los Angeles-based finance company and U.P.I.'s principal lender, refused to advance the cash needed for last Friday's payroll. U.P.I. officials insisted that the Chapter 11 petition had been considered for "several months." Nonetheless, the wire service carried a story quoting unidentified sources who said that Foothill was unhappy with the Wire Service Guild's refusal to renegotiate a labor contract and make new wage concessions. One U.P.I. official said the California company was also upset to learn two weeks ago that U.P.I. had failed...
...forceful speech to the nation on Wednesday night, the President summoned all his rhetorical resources to appeal for public support of the $52 billion in spending cuts in the fiscal 1986 budget plan. "The stakes are enormous," said Reagan. "Please tell your Senators and Representatives by phone, wire or Mailgram that our future hangs in the balance...