Word: writer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...version, listing hundreds of names linked to specific monetary figures, appears to be based on serious research. Eight TIME staffers were cited. Mystified, several of us agreed that the figures were wrong (by 30% in one case) and that none of us had been consulted by Washingtonian. The writer, Robert Pack, explained, "You don't call hundreds of people and ask them what they make because they won't tell you." Pack insisted that he had knowledgeable sources for his numbers. A ^ Washingtonian editor, however, acknowledged that such stories are "ball-park estimates...
...well-drilled 585-man fire department proved all but useless: broken mains left the city without water. Scattered blazes soon converged into fire storms that gobbled up huge swaths of the city. The inferno spread despite desperate attempts to create firebreaks by dynamiting whole blocks of homes and businesses. Writer Jack London, who lived in Sonoma County, said what everyone saw: "I knew it was all doomed...
...this drama Edward Duke has taken a character created by early 20th century writer P.G. Wodehouse and put him into a series of storytelling situations. The stories however, never cease to delight and amuse because Duke keeps pulling a number of comic, eccentric characters...
...first Rothschild Lecture, an Israeli writer and a Palestinian activist last night presented opposing views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role women should play in solving...
...WRITER-REPORTERS: Edward M. Gomez, Alain L. Sanders...