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That is a boon to readers in the rest of the U.S.: these are emigrants from the best journalism academy in the land, and papers elsewhere could profit from their lessons. - By William A. Henry III. Reported by BJ. Phillips/ St. Petersburg
...million apple crop is grown, sprayed their orchards with water to form protective ice around the buds. Iowa State University Veterinarian John Herrick, noting that testicular frostbite can interfere with sperm production, urged ranchers to check their bulls for sterility. But for some the weather proved a financial boon. Ski-resort operators in New Jersey and New Hampshire, with a foot of new snow, extended their seasons...
...dominate the market for time clocks and punch-card tabulators. In the 1930s it pioneered the sale of electric typewriters. But its most revolutionary feat was to usher in the computer age. With vision and drive, IBM increased the electronic brain power of American business and then spread that boon around the world. In the 1960s and '70s, roughly two-thirds of all computers sold bore the IBM trademark. The company was so overpowering that the eight major computer firms were commonly known as IBM and the Seven Dwarfs...
...taking a toll on the nation's airlines and, most visibly, on the patience and stamina of the traveling public. Three major airlines (Delta, TWA and United) reported last week that third-quarter earnings had slumped as a result of the reduced air traffic. Air New England, the boon and bane of that region's travelers, decided to fold its wings at the end of the month after eleven years of operation. The shutdown will mean layoffs for 400 employees. A company announcement partly blamed "the decline in traffic and revenues because of the ongoing PATCO strike...
...great deal. Students have performed many small parts in ART shows and a couple of middling ones; no doubt as the acting curriculum expands, and they take advantage of it, they will move into more prominent roles. The existence of that curriculum itself is a boon made possible only through the presence of Brustein and his company. The general survey course offered this year will need revision to be successful; the more advanced acting, directing and criticism courses, however, all went far towards proving that theater is a valid, important academic pursuit...