Word: roster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some circles, it was the most exclusive roster in Washington last week. Compiled by the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), it included 84 people deemed unsuitable as Government-paid public speakers abroad. Not since Richard Nixon's famous "enemies list" had so many dined out on the cachet of official disapproval...
Unable to field a full roster, the Harvard men's gymnastics team finished third in a tri-meet with MIT and the University of Vermont Saturday at MIT. The Engineers took first place with 203.1 points, while Vermont snagged 188.5 points for second. Harvard could only accumulate 66.9 points...
...helped develop PBS's healthy roster of news programs, including the MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour, Inside Story, Frontline and the critically acclaimed 13-part documentary series Vietnam: A Television His tory. NBC News, by contrast, has been losing ground. Two weeks ago, the brilliant but un profitable Overnight left the air. Today, once the sunrise champ, now has to fight the CBS Morning News for second place, be hind ABC's Good Morning America...
...roster of complaints against the press is diverse, even contradictory, but there is an instructive consistency to the questions that the public asks most often: Are reporters scrupulously accurate, or will they reshape a quote, ignore a fact, even concoct an anonymous "source" in order to make a point? Are they fair and objective? Why are there so many leaks, and do reporters care about threats to national security? What value should reporters place on a person's right to privacy? What purpose is served by the preoccupation with "investigative" reporting...
...impossible to fake a story from, say, the White House. Indeed, the fabrications of Cooke, Daly and Jones were quickly exposed, partly as a result of probing questions from other news organizations. Cooke and Daly were fired, and Jones was dropped from the Times's freelance roster. But the spate of trickery underscored a fundamental vulnerability...