Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign on the bulletin board at Seattle's Romac Industries, a pipefitting manufacturer, stood out from the usual mimeographed ads of cars for sale. It was Welder Tim Baker's appeal for a 45? hourly raise. "I'm requesting this increase because of inflation," he wrote alongside a color photo of himself busy welding a stainless-steel clamp. "The cost of living keeps going up, and the pay's the same. I work hard-just ask me. P.S.: Girls cost more to take...
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! The green flyer on the campus bulletin board promises the greatest little cross-country bus "ride ever. There's no bus terminal, though. To get a reservation you have to shove $10 and a return address under the front door of an anonymous San Francisco connection. Even then, just where or when to find the bus remains a mystery. A note in the mail a few days later tells you to turn up, with a sleeping bag, at an intersection in the Haight-Ashbury district by sundown Wednesday. Says a friend: "You might...
President Carter's policy pf sharply attacking human rights violations in the Soviet Union gained headlines, but did nothing to change the Kremlin's stamp-it-out approach to political dissent. In a thoughtful article published in a special February issue of Trialogue, the bulletin of the Trilateral Commission, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and leader of his country's beleaguered dissident movement, offers Carter some advice on how to persuade Moscow's leaders to improve their human rights record without damaging detente. Excerpts...
...tired gray lady of Philadelphia suddenly showed signs of youthful abandon. She underwent a facelift, retook her maiden name, and declared she would no longer laze around for half the day. So, late last year, the decorous but declining Evening Bulletin (circ. 517,000) rechristened itself the Bulletin and emerged with a crisp new design enlivened by extensive use of color, a greater emphasis on sports and local news and, most important, a new edition on the newsstands by 7 a.m., three hours earlier than before...
...Bulletin thus joined a small but growing number of "all-day" papers that produce both morning and afternoon editions. Only two dozen of the nation's 1,753 dailies publish all day, and most are in relatively small, one-paper cities. But in the past couple of years some big-city afternoon papers have added morning editions: the Detroit News (circ. 634,000), Dallas Times Herald (251,000), and Oakland Tribune (164,000). Other papers are considering the move, among them the financially beset Washington Star (329,000), which has renegotiated its union contracts as part of a long...