Word: note
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There have been signs of trouble at Today since early 1989, when someone leaked a memo in which Gumbel attacked almost all his colleagues except Pauley. After that, it was hard to maintain the fiction that the Today crew was a happy family, and analysts began to note that while Today was first in the ratings, Good Morning America was stealing the young female audience most prized by advertisers. Pauley's awkwardly handled departure -- it looked to many as if she had been supplanted by the younger Norville -- turned a problem into a catastrophe...
...which declined during the first half of the 1980s, increased to 6,691 last year, a 23% rise from 1985. Unfortunately, crime often pays. Of $50 million taken from banks last year, only 20% has been recovered. The most common technique is the tried-and-true "note job," in which a robber simply hands a threatening note to the teller...
...Editor's Note--Jennifer M. Frey can drink a great deal more beer than you can. She is also one of the best writers on the Crimson, and a great friend. We will miss her lots...
...Editor's note: The Crimson deeply regrets the error...
...squeezing Jews out of the country's intellectual establishment. The Central Committee is said to have asked Mstislav Keldysh, then president of the Academy of Sciences, when its Jewish membership would fall to zero. It would take about 20 years to solve the "problem," he replied. I must note that Keldysh did not reduce the number of Jews in the institutes he directed and was not anti-Semitic...