Word: ink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blood. Born to a family of Iowa journalists, he was cleaning presses at the age of ten for the Adair County Free Press, a newspaper his great-grandfather founded and passed along to his father and brother. Recalls Hugh: "I've wiped down more ink than I care to remember...
...affair is not that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences believe in the Core, but that belief here will cause the faculties at other colleges and universities to believe. Because of Harvard's institutional prestige and the corporate power of its alumni, the media have lavished huge amounts of ink on the issue, and outsiders have paid attention to the stories. And even if Harvard is not the actual initiator of a trend (as it was not in the '40s, when the University of Chicago and Columbia were the first to devise general education programs), people still perceive Harvard...
Freelancing has never been the gentlest of callings. Samuel Johnson in his 1755 Dictionary immortalized the ink-stained wretches who lived on London's Grub Street turning out literary piecework. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money," said Dr. Johnson, who nonetheless spent most of his life in poverty. In the platinum age of periodicals, roughly from the 1920s to the 1950s, it was possible for man to live by word alone, provided he sold it to a magazine. The Saturday Evening Post, Look, Collier's, LIFE, Woman's Home Companion and Coronet routinely...
...Black-ink budgets promise tax relief, better services...
Collectively, the nation's states and cities ran deficits in four of the first six years of the 1970s; the red ink in recession-struck 1975 totaled more than $6 billion. But last year states and localities rolled up an aggregate surplus of almost $14 billion. Jimmy Carter, in his January economic message, put the figure much higher: almost $30 billion, which, he said, was "a drag on the economy." Governors and state legislators, worried that Congress would use the figure as an excuse to cut federal aid, protest that Carter improperly counted $15 billion in "social insurance" funds...