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United Press International Inc
United Press International, Inc. 1510 H Street, NorthwestWashington, D.C. 20005U.S.A.Telephone: (202) 898-8000Fax: (202) 898-8057Web site: http://www.upi.com Wholly Owned Subsidiary of News World Communications Incorporated: 1907 as United PressEmployees: 100NAIC: 519110 News Syndicates; 519190... Read more |
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Fellowship of Isis
Fellowship of Isis An international, neopagan religious organization founded in 1976 by author and painter Olivia Robertson to revive worship and communion with the feminine principle of the deity in the form of the goddess Isis and to promote knowledge of the world's matriarchal religions. The... Read more |
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The Hearst Corp
The Hearst Corporation 959 Eighth AvenueNew York, New York 10019U.S.A.Telephone: (212) 649-2000Fax: (212) 765-3528Web site: http://www.hearstcorp.com Private CompanyIncorporated: 1943Employees: 18,300Sales: $3.4 billion (2000)NAIC: 51111 Newspaper Publishers; 51112 Periodical Publishers;... Read more |
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Wall Street Journal
WALL STREET JOURNAL WALL STREET JOURNAL. Charles Dowand Edward Jones, owners of Dow, Jones and Company, began publishing the daily Wall Street Journal on 8 July 1889. Both Dow and Jones were New Englanders with mutual roots in journalism in Providence, Rhode Island. Their company had been founded... Read more |
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Military censorship
CENSORSHIP, MILITARY CENSORSHIP, MILITARY. Military censorship was rare in the early Republic due to the primitive lines of communication in areas of American military operations. Reports from the front were more than a week removed from events and embellished with patriotic rhetoric, making the... Read more |
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American Association of Public Health Physicians
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PHYSICIANS The American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) was founded in 1954 as an organization of physician-directors of state and local health departments. Its initial purpose was to serve as the voice of these physicians and bring their... Read more |
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public relations
public relations activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most favorable light. Thus, the goal of the... Read more |
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Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. 4101 Washington AvenueNewport News, Virginia 23607U.S.A.(804) 380-2000Fax: (804) 380-3114 Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Tenneco Inc.Incorporated: 1886 as Chesapeake Dry Dock & ConstructionCo.Employees: 19,950Sales: $1.8 billionSICs: 3731 Ship... Read more |
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Ed Gordon
Ed Gordon1960- Television and radio news personality Ed Gordon emerged in the late 1990s as one of the hottest news personalities in the highly competitive business. For many years, Gordon was a leading news anchor for the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network. During his early years with... Read more |
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Good News Club, Inc. v. Milford Central School
Good News Club, Inc. v. Milford Central...New York, enacted a “community use” policy, authorizing the after...refused to permit the Good News Club (a “private Christian organization...purposes” (p. 103). In Good News, the Court employed its ... |
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Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
...might force disclosure of confidential sources essential to news gathering. Justice John Paul Stevens argued that the search...suspicion. The Zurcher ruling caused a furor in the press community and led to congressional passage of a provision in the Privacy... |
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Devlin, Joseph
...acquired directorships, including the chairmanship of the Irish News. A small man with a mane of black hair, his political admirers...which he perhaps imbibed too well. His work with emigrant communities made him aware of the power of sentiment and of clientage... |
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German Americans
...Germans to obtain everything they needed within their ethnic community.Because of Germany's belated national unification (1871) and immigrants...Kamphoefner, Wolfgang Helbich, and Ulrike Sommer, eds., News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home, 1991... |
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Review of Reviews
...of Reviews worked for a union among “English‐speaking communities,” and tended to be Anglophile until after World War I...who edited it from its founding until competition from such news magazines as Time caused it to merge with the Literary Digest... |
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ROMANI
...also Romany. 1. A member of the Romani community, c.6–10m worldwide. 2. The originally...60 dialects vary greatly because of the community's wide dispersal and the impact of...scran eat, vaster hand, kur steal, lavs news].Words from Romani borrowed into English... |
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Television
...championed more diverse programming by sponsoring dramatic and news series targeting smaller, more educated audiences. As viewership...Nearly all were aired live. As television reached smaller communities in the South and West, however, the appeal of such shows... |
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JAMAICAN CREOLE
...evolution of BRITISH BLACK ENGLISH. In the US, Jamaican immigrant communities have also retained linguistic characteristics related to continued...entertainment, and programmes with public participation. The news, however, is generally read in English. The use of Creole... |
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radio
...than television—still has a residual power in areas such as news and music. The solution to the technical problem of how...cemented with licences to new national, regional, local, community, and ethnic stations. The pattern of radio consumption has... |
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DIGLOSSIA
...different purposes in the same community. The varieties are called H and L...university lectures, and news broadcasts, while those reserved...the importance attached by community members to using the right...being ridiculed. Members of a community generally ... |
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Christianity
...During the New Testament period, the nature of Christian community (the Church) changed dramatically: the original metaphor...Throughout its history, the Christian quest to share the good news (gospel) of Christ has produced an emphasis on mission... |
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Corinthians, Pauls letters to the
...newly founded, racially mixed, Christian community in the heart of Hellenistic culture...worship at Corinth was vibrant. But the news that reached Ephesus was disquieting. Paul...Cor. 7: 6), and when Paul got this news he sent 2 Cor. 1–9 with Titus (2... |
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Mission
...vocation, and understood it to be the development of a holy community which is preparing the way for the coming of the messiah...disciples to go out into all the world, proclaiming the good news (i.e. gospel), and baptizing all who believe. The 19th... |
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Philippians, Pauls epistle to the
...In the NT, the sixth of Paul's epistles. The Christian community at Philippi in Macedonia was highly regarded by Paul and this...15–20). There seems to have been plenty of exchange of news between Paul and the Church, both by correspondence (Phil... |
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public
...involved in the affairs of the community, esp. in government...ordinary people in general; the community: the library is open to the...choice. ∎ a section of the community having a particular interest...Bates went public with the news at a press conference. ... |
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Shabbetai Zevi
...excommunicated in Jerusalem and returned to Smyrna, and the entire community was thrown into a state of messianic fervour. A division arose...and held in moderately comfortable imprisonment. Meanwhile, news of the advent of the messiah produced enormous excitement throughout... |
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anchor
...confidence in an otherwise uncertain situation: the European Community is the economic anchor of the New Europe. ∎ (in full anchor store...theoretical basis. 2. to act or serve as an anchor for (a news program or sporting event). PHRASES: at anchor (of a ship... |
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Bible
...consists of 27 books. The four Gospels (meaning ‘good news’), attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, record...worship, conduct, and organization for the first Christian communities. The Book of Revelation gives a prophetic description of the... |
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hour
...to be said at a particular time of day, esp. in religious communities. 5. Astron. 15° of longitude or right ascension (one twenty...at an exact hour, or on each hour, of the day or night: news bulletins on the hour. within the hour after less than an... |
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public
...official, social, municipal, community, communal, local; nationalized...available, free, unrestricted, community.antonym: restricted. 5. the news became public synonyms: known...population, populace, community, society, country, nation... |
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IBTimes Launches the First Forex News Channel by a General Business News...
...any general online business news site, will empower traders...number of industry-leading news outlets, seasoned forex brokers...within the site's own 'FX Community,' a global forex forum serving...top of the trading curve with news, fundamental analysis, ... |
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MBC Network Launches One-Hour News Program; As a Prelude to the First 24 Hour...
...journalists nationwide, to address the diversity of news that exist within and about the urban community. Additionally, MBC Network News will provide weekend coverage that highlights major news stories covered throughout the week with a concise... |
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EFEDow Jones News Goes Live; Local Market Veterans Appointed to Lead...
...was appointed assistant news editor and is based in...the Spanish financial community with a new degree of...authoritative business news," said Clare Hart...Media Group operates community-based information franchises...Dow Jones provides ... |
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It's the way ahead; The Agreement: Joint News Letter/Irish News Survey The...
...study jointly commissioned by the News Letter and Irish News. Of those who have made up their...ceasefires, and neither of the young communities expects decomissioning to take place...per cent) drew support from both communities. |
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Tom Appleby, News 12 Connecticut News Director and Evening News Anchor, Marks...
...best, reporting the news that matters most to...This newsroom and this community are more than the place...more entrenched in the community than he. Behind the...on the localism of the News 12 product keeps the...task and delivering the news ... |
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At KKYK, no news may be good news.("News at Nine", Equity Broadcasting...
...day featuring some "News at Nine" reporters...programming and some community affairs projects. High...the Little Rock media community weren't surprised at...newscast's demise. "A news operation is capital intensive," says KATV news director ... |
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Parents can be ready for bad news; Sometimes newspapers bring disturbing news...
...Tribune brings very unpleasant news and images into your home...sense of obligation to tell our community when problems and tragedy need...them. After any disturbing news, I hear from readers who worry...help children deal with grim news: - Don't wait until ... |
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Market Broadcasting Corporation and Market News Service launch "PC Trader", a...
...founder and Chairman of Market News Service, Inc., also founded...solutions for the financial community. Jones said, "PC Trader emulates...cost." The basic service of news and quotes will be priced at...systems. PC Trader features news from Market ... |
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News in brief.(NEWS)(Conference news)
...refrigerator factory in Greenville was closing and jobs were moving to Mexico a loss of 2,700 jobs in an 8,000-person community. Granholm said state, local government, business and union officials worked hard to develop an aggressive and broad package... |
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S. BUFFALO STUNG BY NEW BAND OFF LAKE BILL WIPPERT/BUFFALO NEWS MONDAY'S...
...up the driveway. It was chaotic. The lobby was packed with people trying to check in." The reopening of the road was good news for truckers, but the closing caused a substantial backup that should produce a heavy volume of truck traffic on the Thruway... |