Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operation that reversed the intestinal bypass surgery performed last May after the attempt on his life. With a reticence typical of reports on the Pope's progress, Vatican spokesmen waited half an hour to inform the public about the operation. By the time Gemelli issued the hopeful medical bulletin, John Paul was already conscious and smiling as hospital staff members wheeled him back to his suite. He will still have to spend at least ten days in Gemelli and a longer period of convalescence at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo before resuming his duties at the Vatican...
...rumors began to circulate at the Philadelphia Bulletin last Monday morning. At 3 p.m., Publisher N.S. ("Buddy") Hayden stepped to a lectern that had been hastily propped on a reporter's desk...
...lost $31.2 million since 1979-$10.3 million in the first half of this year-will publish its last edition on Aug. 16 unless the paper's eight unions agree to $5 million a year in cutbacks. The announcement brought a hush to the usually bustling newsroom. Said Bulletin Columnist Rose DeWolf: "You could hear a mosquito buzz...
...threat to shut down the Bulletin came just two weeks after Time Inc. announced it was closing the 128-year-old Washington Star. The reasons have become all too familiar in the darkening afternoon-newspaper market. Once Philadelphia's leading daily, the Bulletin suffered a steep circulation decline (down from 634,000 to 412,000 since 1970). The paper has held on to only 32% of the area's advertising linage in the face of stiff competition from the morning Inquirer (circ. 429,000), two smaller dailies and 24 suburban papers. Says one Philadelphia ad agency executive...
Three years ago, trying to halt its decline, the Bulletin introduced morning editions. Then, under the Florida-based Charter Co., which bought the Bulletin last year for $31 million, the daily was redesigned and suburban editions were sharpened. The staff of 2,100 was trimmed by 125, and a wage freeze was imposed on nonunion employees. Advertisers and readers continued to defect, and losses grew...