Word: telegraphers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Other nations were watching closely. On Japanese television, astronomers and space specialists took turns filling the airwaves with learned commentary on Voyager's progress. In Britain, television stations broadcast a drumbeat of bulletins on the mission. London's Sunday Telegraph hailed the achievement as "the most spectacular piece of space exploration since men stepped foot on the moon...
Minister Menachem Begin told the London Sunday Telegraph that Jordanian-Iraqi military cooperation "is very serious to us." Such warnings have heightened worries in the West that Israel could feel compelled to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iraq if Iraq emerges from this war too cocky and powerful...
...went to London for a night to see a civil young man who says he is the editor of the Sunday Telegraph. He signed his letters 'Peregrine Worsthorne.' I said 'an unusual name' . . . Well, this man of mystery proposed to send me abroad for a treat. We drank heavy and I behaved rather like Randolph [Churchill] in his braver moments, calling for more and better wine, until I said: 'I presume Michael Berry is paying for this?' 'No, indeed, I am, out of my wages.' So then I felt I had behaved...
...male. Mathematics and the sciences are masculine preserves. Though a third of the Supreme Soviet and 25% of Communist Party members are women, none occupy positions of real power, including membership in the Politburo. Even in what are considered traditionally female professions -education, health, post office, telephone and telegraph operations, and shopkeeping-the majority of managers and decision makers are men. As Nikita Khrushchev once admitted to an agricultural conference, "It turns out that it is men who do the administrating and women who do the work...
...business proposal with sympathy and understanding. One corrective exercise asks, "Did you find rewriting the cliches easy?" At $89.95 each, the firm has sold upwards of 10,000 Power Writing kits, each of which contains workbooks, a dictionary, a thesaurus and four audio cassettes. American Telephone and Telegraph has budgeted an estimated $2 million to provide a customized version of the Power Writing course for 20 Bell System offices throughout the nation...