Word: caving
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...make sure that a story did not dally in its progress from writer to printing plant, a "flow chart" was set up outside the office of Managing Editor Ray Cave. By watching color-coded magnetic squares on a gridlike metal board, editors were able to track their copy as it proceeded through the various stages of TIME'S editorial process: writing, editing, checking, re-editing, copyreading, proofreading and fitting. The last story cleared the board at 2:31 p.m. Wednesday, 29 minutes ahead of its final deadline. Said Leliévre: "There is no room for error...
Graves, TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan; they were accompanied by Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein. After a stay in Peking, the party visited agriculturally rich Sichuan province, where many of the current experiments in economic liberalization were first tried, then flew over the towering Hengduan Mountains to Lhasa, Tibet (average elevation: 16,000 ft. above sea level) and finally to the semitropical trading port of Canton some 3,000 miles to the southeast...
...company. She was aggressive in acquiring one television and several radio stations, and in using her newspapers' influence to champion liberal candidates and causes, but personally she remained extremely reticent. In a rare interview, she once said: "I am content to have people think I live in a cave and wear horns...
James McCarthy, an MBTA spokesman, said the contract for excavation of the tunnel requires Morrison-Knudsen "to take measures to prevent potential mudslides or cave-ins." McCarthy added that the construction firm has contended that ground conditions proved different from what they were led to expect from an MBTA engineering report...
...written in a foreign language, intelligible only with the aid of a vocabulary key. she speaks with affecting hesitation, her sentences full of internal rhymes. She lives in an abandoned greenhouse. After Barrett finally short-circuits and decides to challenge God to prove his existence by descending into a cave and waiting for a sign, Allison nurses him back to health. "Lately I tend to fall down," he says. "That's all right I tend to pick things up. I'm a hoister," she responds...