Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVE ALWAYS wondered whether it would be worthwhile to sign up for one of those memory experiments that are always posted on the bulletin board in William James. They usually offer subjects about four dollars to perform some minor task just to see how you do. That is what Harvard is really about. The subjects do what they're supposed to do and wonder what the whole experiment is about...
When Walter Annenberg sold the Inquirer in 1969 to a forerunner of the Knight-Ridder chain, the city's dominant paper was the rival Bulletin, which advertised, more or less accurately, "In Philadelphia, nearly everyone reads the Bulletin." The Inquirer was uncreative, undistinguished-it even employed an investigative reporter who took money to suppress stories-and in danger of dying an unmourned death...
...remarkable turnarounds, in quality and profitability, in the history of American journalism. The paper won six consecutive Pulitzer Prizes from 1975 through 1980 in six different categories. By July 1980 the Inquirer had converted a 173,000 daily circulation gap into a small lead, and 18 months later the Bulletin folded. Roberts and his troops once again were ready. The Inquirer expanded its business and leisure coverage, the first steps in a campaign to win over former Bulletin readers. The paper also hired 95 more editorial staffers, bringing the total to some 400, and increased the news space 20%. Explains...
...extremely unfortunate that a few people in South House feel a need to violently rip posters from bulletin boards and doors. That this violence has been selectively and consistently aimed at those posters advertising Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day is regrettable beyond words...
Radio Conakry was still broadcasting funeral dirges and flowery eulogies last week for President Ahmed Sekou Toure, who had been buried only a few days earlier, when an anonymous spokesman broke in with a bulletin. Guinea's armed forces had seized power in a bloodless coup, the announcer declared. The goal, he went on, was to replace Toure's 26 years of "bloody and ruthless" rule with "true democracy." Word of the coup brought many rejoicing Guineans out into the streets...