Word: firmament
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...real significance of the plan is symbolic. To a journalist, the Times's admitting vulnerability is a crack in the firmament. It's like that moment when you see your father catching his breath on the stairs and it dawns on you that someday he will die. (And, by extension, so will you.) So other outlets are hoping the Times will show them a way to rage against the dying of the light, if not with the pay wall then with its plan (similar to the efforts of companies like Time Inc.) to develop content for the Apple iPad...