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[ DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS]
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| ... a non-profit institution, civic group, religious organization, trade association, or political group. Publicity A type of public relations in the form of a news item or story which conveys information about a product, service, or idea in the media. Puffery A legal exaggeration of praise lavished on a product ... |
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[ SOCIALISM & RELATED SYSTEMS]
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| ... of Paris Notes or Lego and Penso. From time to time he wrote a short piece of his own--either a comment on a news item or a reply to a critic. One curious piece concerned the contrast between the will of the banker J. Peirpont Morgan and the last ... |
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[ LANGUAGE]
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| ... 28, 1998, John Mark Ockerbloom wrote in the News of The On-Line Books Page: "The copyright extension bill mentioned in the October 9 news item is now law, having been signed by President Clinton on October 27. This will prevent books published in 1923 and later that are not ... |
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[ SOCIALISM & RELATED SYSTEMS]
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| ... condition. None of the women was more than forty-two years old. Robert A. Loberfeld, vice president of the committee, is quoted in a news item as describing the situation as "shocking." Cancer has even reached epidemic proportions. At the Fourth National Cancer Conference, in September 1960, Lester Breslow reported ... |
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[ SOCIOLOGY]
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| ... information or reasoning. The headline's expression evokes a series of stereotypes that are more than sufficient to confirm and reassure a person. The news item becomes part of the collection of images that serve to feed our opinion, which is at the same time both stable and fragile. Here ... |
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[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
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| ... mistake had been made--it was another woman who was the witch. And again in the Los Angeles "Times" I read a perfectly serious news item, telling how a certain man awakened one morning, and found on his pillow where his head had lain a perfect reproduction of the head ... |
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[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... William James of Harvard University, the newspapers had it that Mr. M. S. Ayer of Boston had received a message from his spirit. This news item provoked the ridicule of the people who believe in ghosts, but the joke was on Mr. Ayer of Boston. When, however, it was reported ... |
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[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
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| ... William James of Harvard University, the newspapers had it that Mr. M. S. Ayer of Boston had received a message from his spirit. This news item provoked the ridicule of the people who don't believe in ghosts, but the joke was on Mr. Ayer of Boston. When, however, it ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... other special publications. The online users' ability to search today and yesterday's news makes these offerings particularly useful. The cost of reading a given news item varies by online service. What will set you back 20 cents on one service, will cost you two dollars on another. It may be ... |
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[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
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| ... mistake had been made -- it was another woman who was the witch. And again in the Los Angeles "Times" I read a perfectly serious news item, telling how a certain man awakened one morning, and found on his pillow where his head had lain a perfect reproduction of the head ... |




