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Meanwhile, the actual number of daily papers has dropped from 1,570 in 1992 to 1,532 last year, and those that survive are being bought up by large chains. Since 1992 more than 300 dailies have changed hands, the overwhelming majority passing from one chain to another. The 15 largest groups now control more than half the country's daily newspaper circulation, and the trend is for all the papers in a region owned by one group to share photographs and reporters...
...past, owning papers made families like the Hearsts, the Grahams and the Sulzbergers tremendously wealthy. And even last year, profit margins for the industry as a whole were a respectable 12.5%--nearly twice that of the average Fortune 500 company. (Gannett Co., the country's largest newspaper chain, rang up a 21.7% margin.) Notes John Morton, a Wall Street analyst: "The newspaper industry is sorely besieged, but not from a lack of profits...
Siblings Maurice (Timothy Spall) and Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) shared a challenging childhood and adolescence but have since hardly spoken to each other: he is married and busy with a prosperous photography business; she is coping as a single mother of a chain-smoking teen, Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). Meanwhile, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the child Cynthia gave up for adoption and forgot, tracks down her mother. Revelation to Maurice and to Roxanne seems imminent. Drama ensues...
...Sesame Street taken over the world? Is it hyperactivity caused by too much coffee and the ever-expanding Starbucks chain? Or is this just a manifestation of the evolution of our ever shorter attention spans...
...national chain CompUSA has an outlet nearby (Corner of N. Beacon and Market St., Brighton), but I would steer clear if you're looking for quality systems. CompUSA's prices are rock-bottom, but the machines they sell--IBM Aptivas, Compaq Presarios, and Packard Bells--are all designed for the home market, not a college dorm. These computers may seem like good deals in the short-run, but you may have problems expanding them in the long term...