Word: bays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every President from Kennedy to Reagan, with the possible exception of Jimmy Carter, is morally guilty. The names in any history book speak for themselves: the Bay of Pigs; Vietnam; Cambodia; Chile; Lebanon; Grenada; and most recently, Nicaragua...
There is an amusing bit of driving from Back Bay Station to South Station. It is hard to think about, impossible to describe, but if one doesn't study it too much and keeps hoofing along, everything comes...
...million and raised questions about its ability to survive as an independent institution. But the week's most stunning news came the very next day. Dallas-based LTV, the No. 2 U.S. steelmaker and a major defense contractor, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to keep creditors at bay while it tries to make a financial comeback. In terms of its revenues, which reached $8.2 billion last year, LTV is the largest U.S. company ever to declare bankruptcy...
...newsstands every week for 25 cents, leaves foreign policy and national affairs to the prestigious Boston Globe. Says Tab Editor Russel Pergament: "The key to our success is that we're relentlessly local." In most cases, free-paper editors carefully tailor their stories to readers' tastes. Berkeley's East Bay Express, which operates out of the former headquarters of the Black Panthers, caters to young urban professionals. One recent story: a 9,000-word investigative piece on a community opera group...
Perhaps the king of free papers is Chicago Reader Publisher and Editor Robert Roth. He and eight others also publish a Reader in Los Angeles and are part owners of the East Bay Express and City Paper, a weekly in Washington. The papers brought in revenues of $9 million last year. While the Chicago Reader is now one of the most successful free weeklies, its founders could once barely afford to print a newspaper, much less give it away. In the early days, Roth and three college friends shared an apartment and put together the Reader on the dining-room...