Word: broadsheet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prince and Princess of Wales acted wisely on behalf of their sons, because the media coverage was extraordinary. Every paper, broadsheet and tabloid was lying in wait with exhaustive stories. The next morning, the Sun devoted 26 pages to the split. To judge by reaction in the streets, it was a sad day. The fairy-tale marriage was finally over after 11 years, and people were sorry to see the last gleaming gossamer fade into cobweb...
...broadsheet handed out by the marchers charged that rent control destroyed cities, decreased diversity in neighborhoods and denied landlords a fair profit. It also said that many tenants of rent-controlled housing units can afford market rate rents...
When Thomas Geyer started running the New Haven Register in 1986, the paper's Connecticut marketplace was booming. That made it possible to increase profits while simultaneously transforming a lackluster broadsheet into an editorially aggressive and graphically vibrant winner of awards, including the New England Newspaper Association's 1988 prize for the best Sunday paper of its size. But this year, as employment and house sales slowed, classified notices fell off 25%. The biggest display advertiser, the Macy's retail chain, cut its pages 15%. Overall, Register ad linage plummeted...
...Post's plight was the latest skirmish in the prolonged battle for survival in New York City's fiercely competitive newspaper market, increasingly an oddity in the era of one-paper monopolies and bland corporate chains. Four papers -- the broadsheet New York Times (circ. 1.1 million) and three tabloids, the Post (504,000), the New York Daily News (1.2 million) and New York Newsday (230,000) -- managed to make it through the booming 1980s. But now the city's economy is in a tailspin, and the tabloids are being dragged down with it. "I don't think there's room...
Selecting a spot to pose for the picture you see here, John decided on the entrance to the liberal Moscow News. On the sidewalk he encountered a huckster selling an unofficial broadsheet printed in Minsk. The lead article was titled "Raisa Gorbachev: Who Is She? Translation from TIME Magazine." Says Kohan: "He was doing a brisk business at one ruble per copy." Now that's glasnost...