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...prime uses: archival scanning that once required exhaustive card- catalog searches and high-speed analysis of myriad numbers until the machine kicks out revelatory patterns. In 1979, for instance, the Miami Herald scanned with a computer all 2 million of Dade County's property-tax assessments to dig out inequities. In 1984 Long Island's (N.Y.) Newsday parsed every state- awarded highway contract in the area and all major county sewer contracts over eleven years to discover that five favored firms collected 86% of the boodle...
...battle between the Dallas Times Herald and its Big D rival, the Morning News, has been a rough, old-fashioned newspaper war, but last week one side in effect surrendered. The owner of the Times Herald, the Los Angeles-based Times Mirror Co., agreed to sell the paper for $110 million to MediaNews Group, a Woodbury, N.J., holding company with some three dozen small and medium-size papers...
...fold the News American comes at a time when Hearst (estimated 1985 revenues: $1.5 billion) seems to be losing patience with papers that produce persistent losses. In 1982, Hearst, which still has 14 newspapers, including the San Francisco Examiner and the Seattle Post- Intelligencer, sold the struggling Boston Herald American to Publisher Rupert Murdoch, who has since revitalized the paper with a feisty new style...
...Boston Herald theater critic ArthurFriedman has placed shows starring Moore and Ronisand ones directed by Ronis in his "10 Best Playsof Boston" lists for the past two years. TheBoston Globe and the Phoenix havesingled Moore and Ronis out as student talent towatch in the future. Moore, since his junior yeara virtual A.R.T. company member, in last springreceived the Jonathan Levy Award, given by theOffice for the Arts to Harvard's outstandingactor, and last month won the Louis Sudler Prizeas the oustanding artist in the senior class...
...paper-airplane contests," he says, "but I had never profiled a movie princess. How, I wondered, was I going to make conversation with a woman of 18 over the space of several days, much less keep pace with her?" Goodgame, a TIME correspondent since 1984 and formerly a Miami Herald reporter in the Middle East, is a venerable...