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...1990s, retail advertising began to fall off because, the thinking went, modern businesses wanted broadsheet displays, not shrunken tabloid pages. Reporting talent - disgusted with the paper's draconian management - came and went. The Rocky cut back its statewide coverage and pretty much ignored Colorado's burgeoning Hispanic and newcomer populations. The paper also committed the ultimate sin in journalism: it was boring. What did Scripps do? Reduce subscription prices, mount a few lame marketing campaigns and change the paper's name to the Denver Rocky Mountain News...
...decreases get smaller and smaller. For investors who want to get a small fraction of their investments back sometime in the next decade this sort of academic argument may be didactic, but it has no practical use. What is likely to happen to the market is that it will fall another 15% or 20% and then trade sideways, perhaps for several years. That is what happened from 1965 to 1981.There were peaks and troughs during that stretch and clearly traders made money on those. But, it was a particularly poor period for long-term investors who wanted...
...dream it, you can’t do it,” John F. Ruggiero, a member of the audience, said of Lieberman’s suggestions. Lieberman also discouraged the consumption of corn-fed beef on campus because cows are not evolutionarily designed to eat corn. Cows fall ill when they do eat corn on a regular basis. “I didn’t know that they put the cows through all that semi-torture to obtain it,” said audience member David J. Cordeiro. The professor also presented a number of discoveries that...
...Rogoff wrote. According to Barro, America has been plagued by only two depressions since 1870—the post-World War I depression and the Great Depression. The Harvard economist’s current piece came in the midst of an economic downturn that has seen the stock market fall to its lowest levels since 1997. Barro said he could not give further comment on his piece yesterday...
...prospects of same-sex marriage in California grew dimmer Thursday, when two Supreme Court justices who helped create the right for gays to marry in last year's historic decision expressed deep reservations about attempts to strike down a statewide referendum passed last fall to ban the practice. "You would have us choose between these two rights: the inalienable right to marry and the right of the people to change their constitution," said Justice Joyce L. Kennard, one of those two key judges. "You ask us to willy-nilly disregard the right of the people to change the constitution...