Word: flagships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative Globe-Democrat owned by the giant (27 dailies) Newhouse chain and the liberal Post-Dispatch flagship of the Pulitzer group, are editorially separate. But they share advertising, circulation and business staffs under one of 24 newspaper joint operating agreements (JOA) approved by the U.S. Department of Justice. The papers also pool their profits except that there have been no profits for four of the past five years. Moreover Newhouse executives saw little prospect of improvement, and even less that the community-minded Pulitzer family would close the Post-Dispatch...
...telling vignette from a department-store owner's nightmare. Walking through the designer-dresses floor of Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship Manhattan outlet last week, a fashionably dressed woman was asked what she intended to buy. She replied: "I'm just window-shopping here so I can find something good that I like. As soon as I do, I'm going back home to my off-price merchant and get it much cheaper...
...make considerably more money in industry than in teaching. From 1971 to 1980, the number of math teachers dropped 78% nationwide. Massachusetts universities produced only two graduates last June certified to teach chemistry on the high school level and only two who could teach physics. Berkeley, the proud flagship of the California system, did not graduate a single...
...Hart spokesman told about 20 students that the organization--Harvard Students with Hart is a "flagship" for the campaign...
Because all forms of gambling except horse racing are prohibited in the white apartheid portion of South Africa, Kerzner's casinos are springing up in the new black homeland states, which are nominally independent. His flagship is Sun City, a glittering $140 million oasis built in the homeland with the virtually unpronounceable name of Bophuthatswana. The state has a population of 1.4 million and an average annual income of less than $500 a year. The resort's slot machines, roulette wheels and befeathered chorus girls attract as many as 50,000 visitors a day, mostly well...