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  UPI - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
UPI was hurt by changes in the modern news business, including the closing of many of America's afternoon newspapers, and was unprofitable for years.
UPI's White House correspondent and most famous reporter, Helen Thomas, resigned in protest of the Times' links to the Unification Church.
In 2004, UPI won the Clapper Award from the Senate Press Gallery and the Fourth Estate Award for its investigative reporting on the dilapidated 'hospitals' awaiting wounded U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /united_press_international.htm   (719 words)

  
 University Physicians, Inc.
UPI is a 501(c)(3) corporation established by the Regents of the University of Colorado in 1981 pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes 23-20-114(2)(a).
UPI is responsible for the billing and collection of fees for the professional services of all SOM faculty physicians and other medical professionals who are members of UPI.
UPI and the SOM are committed to complying with all applicable Federal and State laws and regulations and third-party payer rules governing the billing and collection of fees for professional clinical services.
upi.uchsc.edu /compliance.html   (2517 words)

  
 United Press International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Front of UPI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic.
UPI was hurt by changes in the modern news business, including the closing of many of America's afternoon newspapers, and was unprofitable for years as its customer base shrank.
Developing one of the first news taxonomies, UPI use of metadata helped define how information was categorized and customized to the user.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UPI   (1120 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: The fate of UPI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Once UPI was one of the largest and feistiest news organizations in the world.
UPI is under the leadership of a great newsman in Arnaud de Borchgrave, a former editor of the Times and a top-flight talent at Newsweek for many years.
If UPI's new owners were not Asians, were not conservatives and were not religious people, there would be no problem with this deal in the eyes of the critics.
www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14973   (709 words)

  
 UPI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
United Press International (UPI) is a news agency based in the U.S. Formerly one the three biggest news agencies in the with Associated Press and Reuters it has dwindled in size in decades and is now an also-ran.
UPI started as the United Press Associations wire service founded in 1907 by newspaper publisher E.W. Scripps to with the huge Associated Press.
UPI was hurt by changes in the news business including the closing of many America's afternoon newspapers and was unprofitable for It went through seven owners between 1992 and 2000 when it was acquired by News Communications owner of the Washington Times.
www.freeglossary.com /United_Press_International   (347 words)

  
 Lyco: UPI
UPI’s are assigned/verified by the Land Records Office in the Department of Economic Development and Planning Services.
It’s important to remember that one of the goals of instituting the UPI Ordinance is to achieve an interconnectivity of the multiple offices that work with land records.
The UPI for such an action will be labeled as a “part of” that one which land is being taken from.
www.lyco.org /lyco/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=428676   (1513 words)

  
 Washington Times Owner Buys UPI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
UPI was a formidable competitor to the Associated Press until the 1980s, when it had 1,500 reporters and 200 bureaus around the globe.
UPI failed to differentiate itself over time the way Reuters was able to succeed by specializing in financial news, Arlen said.
UPI's current reach is difficult to determine because the service is resold through various vendors such as the Kyodo News Service in Japan, which in turn resells it to other organizations, he said.
www.rickross.com /reference/unif/unif74.html   (816 words)

  
 World Peace Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In response to a question from UPI, Harris confirmed CBI also had conducted other tests on the anthrax sample, but he would not reveal the results.
The bioweapons sensors were not connected, UPI was told repeatedly by the spokesmen.
UPI also was told by a Defense Department spokeswoman that, in at least one case, the alerts followed the mail flow.
www.wpherald.com /storyview.php?StoryID=20050321-123223-7231r   (1029 words)

  
 freedomforum.org: Helen Thomas quits UPI over sale
However, individuals familiar with UPI and the parties involved said Thomas never made such a statement and in fact had been moving personal materials out of the White House press-room area occupied by UPI for the past week.
UPI's employees were informed of the sale officially yesterday in a staff meeting, but the possibility of a takeover by the Unification Church had been rumored for more than a week.
UPI through its various owners has never been profitable and has lost millions of dollars since the Saudis took it over in 1992.
www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=12482   (1395 words)

  
 United Press International - UPI Free Trial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
If you wish to read UPI news for your personal use, we invite you to register for the Insider section of The Washington Times, where you will be able to personalize your front page news, and receive an email digest of the most important stories of the day.
UPI news headlines are also available as an RSS feed.
UPI's award-winning photographs are available for viewing by going to the Newspictures section of the Web site, and you may contact one of our partners to license individual images from this section of our Web site.
about.upi.com /products/upi_free_trial.pg   (194 words)

  
 Digis Networks -- Top news from around the world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Washington state lawyers, doctors battle (UPI / 1:50PM MDT on 10/17) OLYMPIA, Wash., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Washington state physicians are reportedly urging patients to join their battle against trial lawyers and large jury awards in medical-malpractice cases.
RAF doctor faces court martial (UPI / 8:20PM MDT on 10/15) LONDON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A Royal Air Force doctor faces a court martial for "disobeying a lawful command" by refusing to serve in Iraq because he thinks the war there is illegal.
Land mines exhibition opens (UPI / 9:55AM MDT on 10/07) CHICAGO, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A two-day national conference on land mines being held in Chicago is using dozens of deactivated devices to demonstrate the difficulty of spotting them.
www.cheerup.net /webnews/listall/world.top.shtml   (9431 words)

  
 Création des UPI (Unités Pédagogiques d'Intégration)
Des UPI peuvent être créées dans certains collèges pour accueillir des pré-adolescents ou des adolescents présentant différentes formes de handicap mental qui peuvent tirer profit, en milieu scolaire ordinaire, d'une scolarité adaptée à leur âge et à leurs capacités, à la nature et à l'importance de leur handicap.
L'action pédagogique entreprise dans les UPI a pour objectif, comme pour tous les élèves accueillis dans l'institution scolaire, le développement optimal des capacités cognitives, de l'efficience scolaire, de la sensibilité, du sens de la coopération, de la solidarité et du civisme.
Les UPI sont placées sous la responsabilité des principaux de collège et sont soumises au contrôle des corps d'inspection.
daniel.calin.free.fr /textoff/upi_1995.html   (3303 words)

  
 United Press International - UPI Newspictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
UPI’s Photo Galleries showcase a selection of UPI photographs and are available for personal use.
UPI Newspictures include captions in English, embedded in the image with IPTC standards.
The UPI standard image is 3000 pixels (long side) at 300dpi, which will produce a 10x8 inch image document.
about.upi.com /products/newspictures   (347 words)

  
 UPI Group
ערך זה עומד במרכז התרבות הארגונית של UPI ומהווה גורם מרכזי והכרחי בהצלחת החברה.
לקבוצת UPI התמחות רוחבית המתפרשת על מספר מגזרי שוק מרכזיים במשק הישראלי: המגזר הפרטי, חברות היי-טק ותקשורת מובילות, המגזר הביטחוני והממשלתי.
בקבוצת UPI נמצאים כל הפתרונות והאפשרויות תחת קורת גג אחת, כך מובטח ללקוח כי השירות שהוא יקבל יהיה מקצועי, אמין ובעיקר מותאם במדויק לצרכיו הייחודיים.
www.upi.co.il   (160 words)

  
 United Press International - SourceWatch
On its website UPI states that "our audience has shifted towards decision-makers in the business or policy communities who are reached through multiple distribution channels.
UPI was at its peak in the 1950's when it had over 5,000 newspaper and broadcast clients.
According to the UPI website, in the fall of 2003 the company planned to introduce a "new Spanish language service that will focus on issues that affect the Hispanic community in the United States".
www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=UPI   (669 words)

  
 DDSM - Usability Problem Inspector (UPI)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The UPI is intended to help inspectors conduct a highly focused inspection of a target application, resulting in a list of usability problems that users will potentially have with the application.
The UPI fits in between these two, capturing the ease of use of the heuristic evaluation, but also providing interaction-based structure from the cognitive walkthrough.
As a Web-based tool, the UPI is easily adapted to various inspection conditions and goals by applying usability situation filters at the beginning of the inspection.
www.dtic.mil /matris/ddsm/srch/ddsm0196.html   (537 words)

  
 General Japanese news
TOKYO, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- The thick smell of chocolate permeated the air during the premiere of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" at Tokyo's Virgin Toho Cinemas.
TOTTORI, Japan, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Transport of radioactive soil from Japan to the United States for disposal was halted after a bag of the soil fell while being loaded onto a truck.
TOKYO, June 1 (UPI) -- The mortality rate for Japanese children between the ages of 1 and 4 is the highest among 14 of the world's most developed countries, a survey shows.
showtimes.usti.net /home/news/clari/news/listall/world.asia.japan.html   (9317 words)

  
 MediaChannel.org - REPORTS | UPI and Moon
Although News World Communications has said that it intends to maintain UPI as an independent news organization, it all hinges on who's interpreting what "independent news organization" means.
UPI, a 93-year-old agency, has been a financially troubled operation for the better part of the past three decades, with multiple ownership changes during the past 18 years.
When the sale to Moon was announced, veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas, UPI's most revered and honored employee, handed in her resignation rather than pick up her paycheck from Moon.
www.mediachannel.org /originals/upi-moon.shtml   (777 words)

  
 Capital Books - UPI Stylebook & Guide To Newswriting
Historic examples of newswriting from UPI’s famous reporters throughout its long history are sprinkled throughout to make this reference of American journalism and events in the last century.
News people who have worked for UPI are nicknamed Unipressers, and they are legendary in the news industry for their resourcefulness and style.
Today, UPI continues the wire service tradition of strong unbiased coverage of major breaking news, along with depth coverage, analysis and commentary to provide insight into the world's most pressing issues.
www.capital-books.com /Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=73007   (749 words)

  
 Commentary: UPI announces top editors
Martin Walker, UPI's chief international correspondent for the past two years, was appointed editor of UPI's English-language operations.
"I am truly confident that the bold new vision for UPI and its role in the News World family of publications is in the best of hands," he said.
Arnaud de Borchgrave, UPI editor at large, said Marshall "combines scholarly erudition with journalistic instincts and I look forward to working with him on many important projects to synergize a multi-faceted, transnational organization where I started my career when it was still UP (United Press)."
quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/co/Uupi.R8rq_DNA.html   (540 words)

  
 University Physicians Inc.
University Physicians, Inc. (UPI) coordinates and supports the clinical activities of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
UPI has 22 professional associations that represent distinguished physicians in over 40 specialties and subspecialties.
We also aim to develop and maintain a patient base that matches the needs of the School of Medicine, while conducting our business in compliance with all regulatory standards.
www.upi.umaryland.edu   (161 words)

  
 UPILocal4100
UPI Local 4100, IFT/AFT-AFL-CIO, filed union authorization cards this week to bring approximately 90 graduate assistants into the UPI Chapter at the University of Illinois-Springfield.
The graduate assistants in Springfield are requesting a merger with UPI’s existing chapter on the campus, led by Chapter President Normajean Niebur.
Jamie Daniel, UPI's director of Organizing and Development, was a member of the planning team for the Aug. 15 event in Chicago.
www.upilocal4100.org   (718 words)

  
 United Press International: 1 million U.S. troops have gone to war   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Published 12/9/2004 4:55 PM WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Nearly a million U.S. troops have been deployed for war in Iraq or Afghanistan since those conflicts began, according to Pentagon data.
Speaking to troops in Kuwait this week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld got an earful of complaints about aging equipment, a lack of armored vehicles and soldiers who say they are being kept on active duty beyond what they were told.
Trainor told UPI that when soldiers take the unusual step of bucking their leadership in public it is a sign of trouble.
fairuse.1accesshost.com /news2/million.html   (532 words)

  
 FBI probes DOD office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col Chris Conway, told UPI that neither Luti nor Rhode had been interviewed or polygraphed by the FBI nor had their bosses alerted them that they were the subjects of an investigation.
In an e-mail to UPI, Rhode denied this.
At least three former CIA officials told UPI that in 1998 Rhode had his clearances suspended, based on allegations he had given classified information to Israel.
www.majority.com /news/upi-spy.htm   (833 words)

  
 Writer's Encyclopedia--Letter U   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
One of the two major wire services in the U.S., United Press International (UPI) is a privately owned commercial news agency established in 1958 in a merger of United Press and International News Service.
From its forty foreign bureaus and more than 100 domestic bureaus located throughout the U.S., UPI gathers, prepares and distributes local, national and international news and photographs to newspapers and radio stations that pay for the service.
The headquarters of UPI are at 220 E. Forty-second St., New York, NY 10017.
www.writersmarket.com /encyc/u.asp   (1565 words)

  
 United Press International - Science(p) - UPI Exclusive: Bush OKs new moon missions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- American astronauts will return to the moon early in the next decade in preparation for sending crews to explore Mars and nearby asteroids, President Bush is expected to propose next week as part of a sweeping reform of the U.S. space program.
To pay for the new effort -- which would require a new generation of spacecraft but use Europe's Ariane rockets and Russia's Soyuz capsules in the interim -- NASA's space shuttle fleet would be retired as soon as construction of the International Space Station is completed, senior administration sources told United Press International.
Along with retiring the shuttle fleet, the new plan calls for NASA to convert a planned follow-on spacecraft -- called the orbital space plane -- into versions of a new spaceship called the crew exploration vehicle.
www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20040107-123930-1532r   (1133 words)

  
 United Press International - International - Lucky Break for Jordan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The U.N. refugee agency and the Jordanian government were expecting a quarter of million people to stream across the border.
Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start.
They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny.
www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20030321-023627-5923r   (1125 words)

  
 War and Piece:
WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- Officials of Iraq's Coalition Provisional Authority are suspected of having leaked extremely sensitive CIA and Pentagon intercepts to the U.S.-funded Iraqi National Congress which passed them on to the government of Iran, according to federal law enforcement officials and serving and former U.S. intelligence officials.
According to the account, which Baer confirmed for UPI, Chalabi staged a fake phone call in the middle of the meeting with the Iranians, but left a forged letter, written on NSC stationary out on the table for the Iranians to read.
Former CIA analyst Stan Bedlington told UPI that the agency had tried to "use and recruit" Chalabi, but that his "information never checked out and was never any good," and so he was dropped "like a hot potato."
www.warandpiece.com /blogdirs/000743.html   (1392 words)

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