Word: pressing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...moved up to the front page. The New York Times has already moved in that direction, playing up pop sociology and urban angst -- and the gray dowager will introduce color late next year. To compete with broadcasting's once-over-lightly approach, papers such as the St. Paul Pioneer-Press and Providence Journal have experimented with running a highlighted synopsis within some long stories...
Even Nobel Prizes for Literature have produced political storms. When Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago, was named in 1958, the official press labeled the decision "a hostile political act." The vilification became so intense that Pasternak declined the prize. He died in 1960, and his son claimed the medal on his behalf only last year...
...exultation was a prelude to a pair of spectacular sexual escapades. First, while still married to third wife Betty, Boner had a fling with a female bodyguard. Then he lurched into a love affair with a willowy aspiring country-music singer named Traci Peel, 35, who joked to the press that the mayor made love to her for seven consecutive hours...
...Wall Street Journal worldwide, "that we are suspending our remaining circulation in the Republic of Singapore." Daily copies of its Asian edition sold in the bustling Southeast Asian city-state, the piece noted, had already < been cut by official edict from 5,000 to just 400. A new Singapore press law requiring foreign publications to be licensed annually and to post a deposit against legal judgments makes clear that "what the government of Singapore wants is for the foreign press to practice self-censorship," the editorial continued. "We cannot accept the implicit bargain." With that, the newspaper announced that...
...leaks also seemed designed to ensnare Riegle. One document suggests that he benefited from two 1987 fund raisers arranged partly by Keating. Shortly afterward, the disclosures indicate, Riegle set up a meeting of the five Senators with regulators to press Keating's cause. The other two Senators / present, Ohio Democrat John Glenn and Arizona Republican John McCain, reportedly have been cleared of wrongdoing...