Word: reporte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will. In 1987 he dumped William Shawn, editor of the New Yorker since 1952, barely a year after describing Shawn as one of the three most influential men in his life. Having been widely lambasted for letting Grace Mirabella learn of her 1988 ouster from Vogue through a TV report by gossip columnist Liz Smith, Si diligently informed Anthea Disney in person last year that she was through at Self -- by making a clumsy unannounced visit to her Connecticut home, where she was vacationing. Soon after Robert Bernstein resigned in November after 23 years as president of Random House...
...hastily made loans that went sour in the go-go '80s, many lenders are reluctant to grant credit even to borrowers who present few risks. While the squeeze has so far been greatest in New England and neighboring states, economists are worried that it could swiftly spread. In a report issued two weeks ago, the Federal Reserve Board noted that 80% of the U.S. banks it surveyed said they had tightened their standards on loans for office buildings. A majority of the banks also said they had cut back their lending to small and medium-size companies. For some firms...
...official report on the upheavals, Chen Xitong, Beijing's hard-line mayor, claimed that 200 civilians were killed and more than 3,000 were wounded. "Several dozen" soldiers died, he said. His figures for civilians are almost universally dismissed as outrageous underestimates. On the day of the crackdown, Chinese Red Cross sources told reporters that 2,600 people died and 10,000 were injured, although the organization later denied it. Amnesty International and some of the protest participants put the number of dead closer...
...found no methodological problems. "We've been at this long enough to be able to reach the conclusion that the audience decline is a real one," says a top Nielsen executive, William Jacobi. Still, the company is continuing to study the mystery and will issue a new report in the next week...
...work of corrupt police officials, who often operate under the guise of stepped-up narcotics enforcement. Despite President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's official condemnations of political corruption, complaints about savage human-rights abuses in Mexico have increased dramatically since he took office in 1988. In a report released in Mexico City two weeks ago, the Dominican Center for Human Rights declared that more than 100 summary executions took place during the first 14 months of Salinas' administration...