* The Washington Post-ABC News Consumer Comfort Index is a consumer confidence index based on telephone interviews with 1, 000 randomly selected adults over the previous four-week period.

Under leave to extend my remarks, I include the relevant portion of my newsletter, together with the text of the article from the U.S. News & World Report: `` your Congressman, Samuel S. Stratton, reports from Washington, May 1, 1961

Criticism includes several examples of cropping quotes from President Obama, Vice President Biden and Vice President Gore so they appear out of context, using image-manipulation software to edit the appearance of reporters from The New York Times and using footage from other events during a report on the November 5 Tea Party rally in Washington, D. C .; Media Matters said the intention of Fox News was to make it appear as if a larger number of protesters attended the event.

, Harvey Mudd College is tied for 14th with Grinnell College, United States Military Academy, and Washington and Lee University among liberal arts colleges in the United States as rated by the U. S. News and World Report and as of 2011, is ranked as the best undergraduate engineering program at a school whose highest degree is a bachelor's or master's by U. S. News & World Report.

A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

" When asked by syndicated columnist Katherine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News ( or by a bystander, according to another account ) what it was called, Irving answered, " It's a jeep.

Using this procedure, Groseclose and Milyo obtain the stark result that all sampled news providers-except Fox News ' Special Report and the Washington Times-are located to the left of the average Congress member, i. e. there are signs of a liberal bias in the US news media.

* 1957 Bill Crawford ( Newark News ) and Herbert Block ( Washington Post ) ( tie )

Indeed, in 2007, when U. S. News and World Report ranked Occidental College the 36th best liberal arts college in the country, tied with Bard College in New York and Whitman College in Washington, the magazine cited both ethnic and economic diversity as key achievements.

The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the Unification Church which also owns newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, as well as the news agency United Press International.

Joseph founded the New York Daily News and Cissy Patterson became editor of the Washington Herald and later publisher of the Herald and the Washington Times.

News then arose about yet another questionable transaction on Garfield's part, now involving a paving contractor for Washington, D. C., named DeGolyer McClelland.

For the past decade, Berea College has been consistently ranked by U. S. News & World Report as the number one comprehensive college in the South, and it is currently ranked as # 1 among liberal arts colleges by The Washington Monthly College Ranking 2011.

UPI was purchased in May 2000 by the Unification Church's media corporation, News World Communications, which, at the time, also owned the Washington Times and newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

In May 1967, the Salisbury Daily Times referred to Twiggy as a supermodel ; the February 1968 article of Glamour magazine listed all 19 " supermodels "; the Chicago Daily Defender wrote " New York Designer Turns Super Model " in January 1970 ; The Washington Post and Mansfield News Journal used the term in 1971 ; and in 1974 both the Chicago Tribune and The Advocate also used the term " supermodel " in their articles.

Felt also planted leaks about Watergate to Time Magazine, the Washington Daily News and other publications.

News of the event traveled across the United States and reached Washington, D. C., just as the nation was celebrating its Centennial.

Washington University's undergraduate program is ranked fourteenth in the nation and seventh in admissions selectivity by U. S. News and World Report.

The 2010 Sporting News list of the " best sports cities " ranked Athens 98 out of 402 eligible cities, putting it ahead of much larger cities such as Norfolk, Virginia ; El Paso, Texas ; Spokane, Washington ; and Fresno, California.

The site won the Washington Posts reader poll for Best International Blog in November 2004 and played a role in bringing attention to altered photographs in the Adnan Hajj photographs controversy.

Both teams won their bowl games convincingly and shared the national championship, Miami winning the Associated Press poll and Washington earning the top spot in the Coaches Poll.

A 2011 poll conducted by Reuters and Ipsos revealed that White was considered to be the most popular and most trusted celebrity among Americans, beating out the likes of Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock, and Tom Hanks.

By 1985, the media had driven the hysteria about candy poisonings to such a point that an ABC News / Washington Post poll that found 60 % of parents feared that their children would be injured or killed because of Halloween candy sabotage.

In a 2004 poll on the North American Vexillological Association website, Washington ’ s flag was voted the best design among United States city flags.

The poll has been cited by major news outlets throughout North America and Europe, including The Washington Post, Fox News, USA Today, The New York Times, CNN, and Reuters.

His strong support for a nuclear freeze won him an intense following among anti-nuclear activists, support that translated into campaign donations, committed staff ( future Washington Senator Maria Cantwell moved to the state in 1983 to head up Cranston's caucus campaign effort there ) and volunteers and straw poll victories in Wisconsin, California, and Alabama.

Washington finished the season ranked first in the UPI poll and 2nd the Associated Press poll behind the University of Miami.

Entertainment Weekly ranked it # 9 on their " 50 Sexiest Movies Ever " poll, but the Washington Post found it ' a little too perfect and symbolically signposted for its own good '.

In addition, an opinion poll conducted by The Washington Post during the peak of the controversy found that approximately two-thirds of District residents opposed the mayor's stadium plan.

The 2007 Boys Varsity Soccer team again won the MAAC Boys ' Soccer championship and achieved a second consecutive Washington Post Top Ten ranking, reaching # 3 in the final poll with a 20-2 record.

The injury was voted the NFL's " Most Shocking Moment in History " by viewers in an ESPN poll, and the tackle was dubbed " The Hit That No One Who Saw It Can Ever Forget " by The Washington Post.

Daniels drew 29. 33 % of the vote, besting second place finisher Mitt Romney ( 22. 66 %) and third place finisher Sarah Palin ( 18. 22 %), and was the winner of a similar straw poll in the state of Washington.

He was a state-suburban editor, then DC editor, with a staff of 40 to 45 reporters and, after Watergate, he founded the Washington Post poll, designing and conducting opinion surveys and reporting on the results.

In 1981 he was in charge for the Post in establishing and directing the Washington Post / ABC News poll, again designing surveys and doing most of the reporting on the findings.

In 2007, a poll of 788 adults by The Washington Post found that 61 % of those adults supported granting the District " a full voting " Representative.

That same year, the Washington D. C. Touchdown Club honored Sinkwich as " back of the year ", and he was overwhelmingly voted the Number 1 athlete for 1942 in the annual poll by the Associated Press over second-place finisher Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, a year in which Williams was American League Batting Champion, American League Home Run Champion and hit for baseball's triple crown.

A Washington Post poll conducted in January 2010 showed Gray leading the incumbent mayor, Adrian Fenty, 38 percent to 31 percent among voters who were " certain " to participate in the September 14th Democratic Primary.

An August Washington Post poll found Gray with a 17-point advantage among likely voters and a 13-point lead among Democratic voters.

A poll published eight days later by The Washington Post revealed that a majority of District residents, 54 percent, believed that Gray should resign.

In June, 1960, an early draft of the questionnaire, along with a cover letter, was mailed to fourteen companies in the state of Washington.

They arrived in Washington about the same time during the early postwar years: Kennedy as the young Congressman from Massachusetts ; ;

-- The 15-year-old adopted son of a Washington attorney and his wife, who were murdered early today in their Chesapeake Bay-front home, has been sent to Spring Grove State Hospital for detention.

On a trip to Washington, with a final plea for help in East Tennessee in early 1863, he gave a speech in Indianapolis, saying: " If the institution of slavery denies the government the right of agitation, and seeks to overthrow it, then the government has a clear right to destroy it.

In the early 1990s, she worked as an associate at the Washington, D. C .- based law firm of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering where she did civil litigation for several years before becoming an Assistant U. S. Attorney.

However, as early as March 12, 1970, the CIA Station Chief told Washington that based on communications from Sirik Matak, Lon Nol's cousin, that " the ( Cambodian ) army was ready for a coup ".

Guest began his career in theatre during the early 1970s with one of his earliest professional performances being the role of Norman in Michael Weller's Moonchildren for the play's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington D. C. in November 1971.

Then, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vera Rubin, a young astronomer at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, presented findings based on a new sensitive spectrograph that could measure the velocity curve of edge-on spiral galaxies to a greater degree of accuracy than had ever before been achieved.

Many early first ladies expressed their own preference for how they were addressed, including the use of such titles as " Lady ", " Mrs. President ", and " Mrs. Presidentress "; Martha Washington was often referred to as " Lady Washington.

Washington followed up his victory at Trenton with another over British regulars at Princeton in early January.

Into the early 20th century, Greenwich Village was distinguished from the upper-class neighborhood of Washington Squarebased on the major landmark Washington Square Park or Empire Ward in the 19th century.

By late March or early April, the returning animals can be seen from Everett, Washington, to Puget Sound to Canada.

Among the early projects on which Pei took the lead were the L ' Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC and the Green Building at MIT.

He was raised as a Christian Scientist and spent his early childhood in Leland, Miss., moving with his family to Hyattsville, Maryland, near Washington, D. C., in the late 1940s.

In the early 1950s he met Morris Louis in Washington DC while teaching night classes at the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts.

The Harlem Lindy Hop dance club and zoot suit culture forms a colourful backdrop in the early part of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington.

In early January 1918, Wilson summoned House to Washington and the two began hammering out, in complete secrecy, the president ’ s first address on the League of Nations, which was delivered to Congress on 8 January 1918.

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The Brewers did suffer some early losses in spring training, as Zack Greinke was lost to a rib injury that would keep him out for a month, and Corey Hart was out for the first half of April with a hamstring injury, which caused the Brewers to make a last-minute trade at the end of spring training for Washington Nationals outfielder Nyjer Morgan.

It has helped to sponsor popular traveling exhibits, such as an early 2010s " King Tut " exhibit featuring magnificent artifacts from the tomb of the young Egyptian Pharaoh ; " The Cultural Treasures of Afghanistan " which opened in May 2008 and traveled to other cities for 18 months ; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009 – 10.

During the early 1980s, Fidel Castro recommended to the Kremlin a harder line against Washington, even suggesting the possibility of nuclear strikes.

In the early 1990s, several standards-based reform measures were passed in various states, creating the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills ( 1991 ), Washington Assessment of Student Learning ( 1993 ), the CLAS in California ( 1993 ), and the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System ( 1993 ).