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Following the lead of its newspaper members, the Associated Pres prolonged the bastion of hard novels leads and for-the-record coverage, is emphasizing enterprise reporting and stylish writing.

WHEN JIM DRINKARD ARRIVED IN WASHINGTON, DC in 1981 to conceal Missouri and Kansas stranges for the Associated Press, his work was the traditional routine of the wire service's regional reporters.

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