Word: circ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affiliated unions sit down with AFL-CIO representatives to coordinate their onslaught on Capitol Hill. The 51 state federations of the AFL-CIO are calling meetings to drum up more opposition to Ford's program, and the weekly AFL-CIO News, Meany's house organ (circ. 60,000), is shrilly calling for more action. Reads a typical headline: CONGRESS, FORD HIT FOR LACK OF URGENCY...
...state senate will decide this week whether to recommend Ashcraft's impeachment. The aggressive publication that dug out these facts is hardly a national name, though among the miners of Appalachia and labor experts across the country it is well known. It is the United Mine Workers Journal (circ. 230,000), possibly the brightest union publication around today...
...exists because of the difficulty of distinguishing between one man's honest religion and another's faith in the rewards of tax dodging. If the IRS was hoping that no one would notice the loophole, it was bound to be disappointed. Last week in a National Enquirer (circ. 3,805,112) article Hensley claimed that he has ordained 3.5 million people since 1962. "If Congress takes these tax breaks away from everyone-all the churches -that's fine with me," says the illiterate minister and building contractor. "Until then, I think everyone should be allowed to share...
That statement is rather typical of much Digest prose and opinion. However, if the prosperous magazine (circ. 18.8 million) wanted to convey its views on economics to its readers, why do it in ads paid for by very interested parties? Digest Managing Editor Edward T. Thompson sought to explain: "It is not reasonable to run an article on American business every month. We wouldn't run that many...
...growth after Ikeda, the son of a Tokyo seaweed vendor, became its leader in 1960. Since then, membership has grown from 1.3 million to 10 million, and converts have been made in more than 30 different countries. To propagate its teachings, Soka Gakkai publishes a daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun (circ. 4.5 million), operates its own university, Soka Digaku, near Tokyo, and has built a temple as big as the Houston Astrodome at the foot of Mount Fuji...