Word: circe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...threatened to "slap his teeth out," while another stormed that he was not fit to lick boots. To such aspersions "Frosty" Troy retorts: "I'm a zealot." Then he returns to making more enemies in his job as the publisher, editor and principal reporter of the Oklahoma Observer (circ. 4,164), a twice-monthly tabloid that hits wealthy and powerful Sooners like a dust storm. Says Ed Hardy, press secretary to Oklahoma Governor David Hall: "Frosty knows where the bodies are buried. Oklahoma has never seen anything like...
...independently wealthy Peretz, whose wife Anne has Singer Co. holdings, becomes NR's third owner since its founding in 1914. Since that time, NR has built an enviable reputation among U.S. intellectuals for its scholarly dissent and literate insights. Though its readership is solid (circ. 100,000) as well as influential, NR faces mounting postal and publishing costs. Recently the weekly has run at a small profit, which is unusual for opinion journals. But red ink is always a threat, and Harrison, 58, figured that it was time for a younger angel with a muscular bankroll...
...Murdoch inherited a small Australian daily from his father in 1953 and built it into a worldwide publishing empire: eleven magazines and more than 80 newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain. Murdoch's major acquisitions include Britain's Peeping-Tom Sunday News of the World (circ. 6,000,000) and the London Sun (circ. 3,000,000), which was failing until he took it over in 1969 and applied his formula: cheesecake, crime coverage and a prose style seemingly aimed at readers who move their lips...
...WALL STREET JOURNAL Morning (circ...
...WASHINGTON POST Morning (circ. 532,000) and Sunday...