Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...false-bottom pickup trucks. On this particular Sunday night, agents working the 3 p.m.-to-11 p.m. shift rounded up 155 aliens and took them to a detention center. INS guards then put the pollos aboard buses, drove them to a border crossing and herded them through a wire gate back into Mexico. Nearly all would try to slip across the border again, many only hours later the same night. They would keep coming until they eventually escaped to pursue the irresistible lure of jobs that are unavailable in Mexico. Says Alan Eliason, chief of border patrols in that section...
...bigger turnout the following day. Then Scargill was arrested for obstruction at Orgreave's main gate. He was quickly released on bail, but the reaction was nonetheless swift and brutal. Within hours, more than 3,000 demonstrators had gathered, and police charges were meeting stiffer resistance. Lengths of wire were strung across the road at the height of a horse's fetlock and a rider's neck. Telephone poles were ripped down and used as battering rams against police lines. The authorities and some miners blamed the renewed violence on hardline Marxist infiltrators...
...reinvigorated wire service goes public, reaping a fortune
Owning stock in Reuters, the London-based international news wire, used to be considered less an asset than a potential liability for the British and Commonwealth newspapers that hold most of the shares: the company sometimes lost money and paid no dividend for more than 40 years. Proprietors of defunct journals treated their residual interest in Reuters as worthless, omitting mention of the stock in their wills. Sellers of papers regarded their percentage of Reuters as at most an incidental value. This week, however, Reuters for the first time will offer shares to the public, and the once disgruntled owners...
...financial wire's success has permitted Reuters to beef up its news operations. The editorial budget has grown 65% in the past two years. The agency nowadays provides complete and thoughtful coverage, especially from the Middle East, Africa and British and Commonwealth countries. The staff of 612 reporters and editors in London and at 92 bureaus assembles a daily menu of about 60,000 words in English, plus services in French, German, Spanish and Arabic. Next year Reuters will launch a photo service. Among the agency's recent exclusives: the first bulletin of the death of Soviet Leader...