Word: beene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Russians often see this as an attempt to kick them out of the homes they have inhabited for generations. So they have been hitting back with strikes that, if they persist, could wreck the economies of some republics. And in Moscow, Communist conservatives have seized on the Russians' plight to...
Last month 35,000 to 40,000 Russians went on strike to protest those laws. Though the walkouts have been suspended, strike leaders still meet three times a week to prepare for a possible resumption. "The strikes are a strong influence on the government to revise the laws," said factory...
The dream of becoming a latter-day Citizen Hearst seems emblazoned upon the American entrepreneurial psyche. Over the past half-century, dozens of metropolitan papers have shut down and few have been salvaged. None have been launched successfully since New York's Newsday in 1940. Yet would-be publishers keep...
The 40 Ingersoll dailies and 200-plus weeklies are mostly undistinguished moneymakers. An intellectual who counts Samuel Beckett as his favorite writer, Ingersoll nonetheless publishes papers that condescend; they entertain more than educate or inform. He blasts other newspapers for giving reporters free reign to pursue investigative and analytic stories...
Whether or not that is fair, everyone agrees that the damage from the catastrophic spill could not be undone so quickly. Much of the oil has been removed and much has been diluted beyond detection, but quite a bit remains. Though the area's wildlife populations will survive, their ranks...