Word: cover
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...follow the rising cost of crude oil and its effect on the world economy, the subject of this week's cover story, TIME correspondents and writers had to report, evaluate and coordinate the outcomes of two important summit meetings in cities 6,000 miles apart. In Tokyo, correspondents from three news bureaus were on hand when leaders of the U.S. and six other petroleum-importing countries met to forge a common strategy on the oil problem. Washington Correspondents Johanna McGeary, Gregory H. Wierzynski and George Taber followed President Carter throughout the talks and on an odyssey that included state...
When crude petroleum enters a refinery, the buyer records its price. To that figure the refiner is allowed to add a margin varying in size to cover processing costs and profit. Until this year, the price of a refiner's product was based on how large a percentage of a barrel of crude it represented. That was considered unfair in the case of gasoline, which costs more to produce than most other oil products. So the refiner was allowed to increase his margin on gasoline by an average...
...improved editorial vitality and attendant advertising and circulation gains. (Newsweek's current U.S. circulation is 2.9 million, vs. TIME's 4.25 million.) Yet newsstand sales have slumped lately, and Graham is said to have been concerned that Kosner was making Newsweek too frivolous with his fondness for cover stories on pop culture and entertainment subjects. The week after Pope John Paul II made his historic return to Poland, for example, the magazine's cover featured Hollywood horror movies. Says Ron Travisano, president of Delia Femina, Travisano and Partners, a leading New York advertising agency: "Newsweek...
ENOUGH OF SUBSTANCE: Lamont's style evolved from years of writing for that most homogenized of magazines, Time. Campus Shock is a Time cover story filled with water and wood pulp, a distended magazine article--the very titles wail with the self-justifying banshee pitch of the media-hyped Big Story: "Campus Shock," "Sexual Anarchy," "Grade Frenzy." And the vignettes, written in the best lurid style of not even Time, but True Detective...
Harvard administrators yesterday said the University's energy costs will soar in the near future, but they cautiously predicted there will be enough heating oil available to cover the needs for the up-coming winter...