Word: informations
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...called police about a suspicious vehicle, but a quick-witted reporter shooed officers away by protesting: "What's the matter with you guys? You're screwing up our investigation." An NBC van was parked near Williams' home in Washington even before the FBI agents came to inform the Senator that he was a subject of investigation. And so the Senator's look of surprise and dismay appeared on prime-time television...
...Meeting twice each semester in which the delegates of each House inform all House residents of assembly activities and solicit suggestions...
...challenge, says Holmes, is "to present statistics as a visual idea rather than a tedious parade of numbers. Without being frivolous, I want to entertain the reader as well as inform him." In some cases, the very curves of plotted statistics suggest an image. Thus the lines on this week's Business graph tracing OPEC's contribution to inflation became the band of an Arab headdress. "I have to be careful to choose the right symbols," he says...
...tide has not flowed entirely in Moscow's direction. In 1948, after Tito persisted in pursuing an independent policy, Yugoslavia was expelled from the Corn-inform, the international alliance of Marxist-Leninist states headed by the U.S.S.R. China under Mao grew increasingly upset over Soviet "revisionism" in the early 1960s. All Soviet advisers were expelled, and since then relations with Moscow have varied from cool to hostile. Three other Communist countries are no longer dutiful Soviet satellites. Albania, from 1960 through 1978 a xenophobic bastion of Maoism in the Balkans, now scorns Peking, Washington and Moscow alike. Rumania, although...
...does a President need to do but look important and say "yes" and "no" in the right places?" The friend is convinced; Walraff tells him to wear a tie and buy an attache-case to make himself look important. The friend sets to his task, and Walraff returns to inform the impatient General that the President...