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Office of War Information
Office of War Information (OWI), U.S. agency created (1942) during World War II to consolidate government information services. The OWI absorbed the functions of the Office of Facts and Figures, the Office of Government Reports, the division of information of the Office for Emergency Management, an... Read more
Oliver Edwin Baker
Oliver Edwin Baker 1883-1949, American economic geographer, grad. Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio. He studied forestry at Yale and agriculture and economics at the Univ. of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1921). He served (1912-42) with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, largely in research on land utilization. Bes... Read more
Warren Commission
Warren Commission popular name given to the U.S. Commission to Report upon the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, established (Nov. 29, 1963) by executive order of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The commission, which was given unrestricted investigating powers, was directed to evaluate all t... Read more
journalism
journalism the collection and periodic publication or transmission of news through media such as newspaper , periodical , television , and radio . Schools The importance of journalism in modern society has been testified to by the establishment of schools of journalism at most of the ... Read more
McDonald Observatory
McDonald Observatory astronomical observatory located on Mt. Locke, near Fort Davis, Tex.; founded in 1932, sponsored by the Univ. of Texas in cooperation with the Univ. of Chicago. Its equipment includes 107-in. (272-cm), 82-in. (208-cm), 32-in. (81-cm), and 30-in. (76-cm) reflecting telescopes. T... Read more
Adolph S. Ochs
Adolph S. Ochs , 1858-1935, American newspaper publisher, b. Cincinnati. Starting as a newsboy in Knoxville, Tenn., he became a printer's apprentice, compositor, and, in 1878, publisher of the Chattanooga Times. In 1896 he acquired the then failing New York Times and made it one of the greatest ... Read more
torture
torture the intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering in order to intimidate, coerce, obtain information or a confession, or punish. In international law, the term is usually further restricted to actions committed by persons acting in an official capacity. The UN C... Read more
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Bernard Mannes Baruch , 1870-1965, U.S. financier and government adviser, b. Camden, S.C. He grew rich through stockmarket speculation before he was 30. In World War I he advised on national defense and was (1918-19) chairman of the War Industries Board; he helped frame the economic provisions of th... Read more
Evans Fordyce Carlson
Evans Fordyce Carlson 1896-1947, U.S. marine officer, b. Delaware co., N.Y. Enlisting at 16 in the army, he served in the Philippines and Hawaii and in France during World War I. In the U.S. marine corps after 1922, he saw service in Cuba, Nicaragua, Japan, and especially China, where in 1937 he st... Read more
Albert Coady Wedemeyer
Albert Coady Wedemeyer , 1897-1989, American general, b. Omaha, Nebr., grad. West Point, 1918. After service in China, the Philippines, and Europe, he was graduated (1936) from the general staff school at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and was sent to the German general staff school. In World War II he wa... Read more

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SIC 7383 News Syndicates
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...Service and Capitol News-wire), to name a few. The genesis of U.S. news syndicates can be...Associated Press was the world's largest newsgathering...with more than 235 news bureaus in about...addition to providing reports of general-interest...
Corporate Fraud
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...fraudulent earnings reports. Enron Corporation...of the nation's most successful...increased the company's stock value, thus...The company's accounting firm...March 2002, the world learned that WorldCom...company in the U.S., had overstated...response to the news. ...
Gregory, Thomas Watt
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...of the United States into world war i,Gregory's justice department experienced...as he worked to enforce U.S. laws pertaining to espionage...general interests of the U.S. government. It is...was unable to cope with news of her husband's death...
Import Quotas
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...agreement regulating world trade. GATT members...can adversely affect U.S. industries that...goods abroad. The U.S. economy has suffered...Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report 52 (November 26...Mendelowitz. 1995. Federal News Service, congressional...
Ruby, Jack
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...after Kennedy's assassination in...in the criminal world considered Ruby...distraught at the news of the assassination...however, Ruby's family discharged...support Belli's medical diagnosis...warren. The Warren Report, issued in 1964...committee of the U.S. House of...
Supreme Court Historical Society
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...history behind the U.S. Constitution...the committees report to an elected...the Society's first chairman...The Society's most ambitious...United States Reports, the official...Supreme Court in World War II. The...articles and news of programs and...Association and the ...
E-Zines
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce ...most often on the World Wide Web. The...which covers news, politics, and...host of CNN's political commentary...1999, Slate's managers realized...that the number of U.S. households...included performance reports profiling Wall Street analysts, news and commentary...
Home Networking
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce ...2 billion in U.S. home networking...market research reports, many of which...connection. 2Wire's HomePortal 1000...standard. Microsoft's highly marketed...Users." Network World. April 2, 2001...Group Computing Report. February 15...Computer Dealer News. January 15...
Higher Education in Context
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...Competition for the best faculty, for students, for research grants, and for the ever more important rankings by U.S. News and World Report and other publications are all central to the contemporary academic enterprise. The most prestigious academic...
Freedom of Information Act
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...and publishing reports that exhaustively...bill ’ s passage can be...party ’ s control of both...FOIA ’ s implementation...to hundreds of news stories about the...legislation by U.S. state and...Throughout the world, democracies both...

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Do the Right Thing
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Reid, Mark A., Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, New York...Controversial Thing. (Director Spike Lee's Movie Do the Right Thing )," in U.S. News & World Report, 10 July 1989. Johnson, Victoria...
Reeve, Christopher
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Springfield, NJ 07081, U.S.A. Films as Actor: 1978 Gray...Weekly, 27 January 1997. "Reeve's Super Struggle," interview with Nancy Shute, in U.S. News & World Report (New York), 11 May 1998. "In...
Breer, Robert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...York, NY 10016, U.S.A. Address: 80...Tappan, NY 10983, U.S.A. Films as Animator...American Film Institute Report (Washington, D...Motion," in Art News (New York), November...Breer's Animated World," in American Film...
Voice of America
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...States entered World War II. Speaking...will bring you the news of the war. The news may be good. The news may be bad. We...dissemination of U.S. policy and other...director of the USIA reports to the secretary...culture, and report on U.S. policy...
Brown University
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the early 1980s, its applications rising quickly, and in 1987 it was ranked among the top ten U.S. universities in U.S. News & World Report. After E. Gordon Gee's brief presidency (1998 – 2000), Brown named Ruth J. Simmons...
Censorship, Military
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...mismanagement. During World War I the government...Public Information's "voluntary" censor...Espionage Act's restrictions seeking...sentiment. With U.S. entry into World...contradictory to field reports. Television broadcast...Pentagon Papers report. The ...
Winston, Stan
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Billboard, 3 April 1993. Biodrowski, S., "Stan Winston," in Cinefantastique...Big Blue Goes Hollywood," in U.S. News and World Report, 19 September 1994. Johnson, Ross...1995. Duncan, Jody, "Moreau's Menagerie," in Cinefex (Riverside...
National Public Radio
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...weekly via its U.S. stations...cable. It had news bureaus in Chicago...reputation with news and information...Considered combined news headlines with reports from NPR staff...audiences to hear World War II bombings. Murrow's style of reporting...
Crime, Organized
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...finest casino in the world and found time...two terms in the U.S. Congress. However...John Landesco's Organized Crime...Justice published a report on organized crime...enforcement. The U.S. Justice Department...cooperated. The news media reported...
The Conversation
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...The Conversation: Coppola's Biography of an Unborn Man," in...no. 1, Fall 1976. "'America's Culture Is Controlled by Cynical...interview with Francis Ford Coppola, in U.S. News and World Report, 5 April 1982. Turner, D...

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but
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...although.   2. this one's expensive, but this one isn't...front page during the 1990s) and U.S. News & World Report (in 1997), the figure is about...climax drips with sentiment, it's ultimately unsatisfying.”...

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LIBYA COMPLYING, U.N. REPORTS BUT U.S. DEMANDS MORE CHANGE.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 7/3/1999; 700+ words ; ...conditions to lift U.N. sanctions by...trial, the head of the world body said yesterday...Kofi Annan said in a report that he couldn't...Libya had fulfilled all U.N. conditions for...permanently lifted. U.N. resolutions require...information about Libya's compliance. In the...
U.N. Reports Drop in Colombia Coca Crop
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/17/2003; ; 526 words ; ...a U.N. report said Wednesday...report by the U.N. Office...government's vigorous use...eastern Colombia's Catatumbo region...Nyholm, the U.N.'s top anti-drug...most of the world's cocaine...Nyholm, at a news conference to...
U.N. Reports Progress on Health, Poverty
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/16/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...women around the world, the United Nations...The world body's Population Fund...remain vast, the U.N. population...a halfway point report on the 20-year...a landmark 1994 U.N. population...improving women's rights, including...Obaid said at a news conference...
U.S.: Reports of China's role in Sudanese war are overstated.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 8/30/2000; 659 words ; ...sources are disputing reports that China has deployed...in that country's 17-year-old civil...airlift fleet in the world, six months to move...decade ago. "It's an effort to flex...pray about what's going to happen next...Press International. News Provided by COMTEX...
U.S. Reports Changes in Global Terrorism
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/28/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...attacks around the world last year, resulting...500 of last year's attacks occurred in...addition, al-Qaida's relations with the...weaker and the group's finances and logistics...In Iraq, which the report called a key front...Caucasus. In 2004, the U.S. government...energy to ...
U.N. Reports on Environmental Woes
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...quarter of the world's mammal species...Outlook-3 report depicts an...report at a news conference in London, the U.N. Environment...organization's executive...percent of the world's population...But the bad news outweighs the good. The report notes ...
U.S. reports progress on Iraqi elections, but little on hunt for Saddam
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/31/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...commander of U.S. ground forces...optimistic that a U.S.-appointed Governing...said he had little news on the hunt for...aside commanders' reports of near-misses...significant to report in the search for Iraq's most wanted man...51 the number of U.S. ...
U.N. Reports on Diamond Smuggling
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/16/2001; ; 533 words ; ...10-16-2001 U.N. Reports on Diamond Smuggling...smuggling, a U.N. report says. ``Smuggled...the estimated world rough diamond...for 2000,'' a U.N.-appointed...the country's diamonds, informed...contained in the AP News report may not...
U.N. Reports Iraqi Cooperation
Transcript from: CBS Evening News with Dan Rather; 2/14/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...ROBERTS:: The report only seemed to...under Powell`s skin, and provoked...response to France`s proposal to put...jeopardize the U.S. military...officials tell CBS News tonight, they...and around the world, the Security...impact on the U.S. military...David Martin ...
U.S. reports wholesale sales upswing Inventories not growing as fast as sales
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 5/8/2003; 700+ words ; ...Sales at U.S. wholesalers increased...a government report showed. Wholesale...double February's 0.5 percent increase...in a Bloomberg News survey. Wholesale...month, Wednesday's report showed...25 percent. U.S. Treasuries...Micro Inc., the world's ...