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...death in 1989 of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, the Times's major competitor, has helped boost the paper's daily circulation to a record high. But like every newspaper in these recessionary times, the Times sees clouds forming on its economic horizon. For more than two decades, it has waged a costly battle for suburban and San Diego readers, wooing them with regional editions of the Times, each tailored to local audiences by an on-site staff. While publisher Laventhol says he has no intention of ceding these outposts to entrenched regional and local newspapers, the Times has shelved...
...fading finances of corporate raiders herald the bonfire of yuppie vanities...
...Rockingham County Superior Court in Exeter, court watchers began queuing up in the wee hours to get good seats. The Boston Herald set up a 900 number, at 95 cents a minute, for readers to call in verdicts. One witness, who has already sold her story to Hollywood for $100,000, testified that Smart told the boys to lock the dog in the cellar so it would not have to watch the dastardly deed...
...expanded in the print business, many firms he launched or resuscitated were obscure, technical in orientation or uninfluential. But since May 1990, he has spent an estimated $40 million launching the European, an English- language newspaper to compete with the International Herald Tribune. A self-made man who is reportedly Britain's ninth richest, with a net worth of $2 billion, Maxwell has earned wide esteem in London's business community. He is robustly satirized, however, by the leftish Private Eye in the comic strip Captain Bob. Among his fiercest critics are former employees. One claims Maxwell is so manipulative...
...second volume of his autobiography, Moscow and Beyond, 1986-1989, Andrei Sakharov shows his transformation from simple political dissident to herald of the Soviet Union's current troubles...