Word: inked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story of my brave people at the Battle of Masada." And the third elder, the Pharisee of NBC, asked: "What about me, Lord?" And the Lord God said: "Sorry, Man of Silver, this isn 't your year." But for the good elders, God did part the Red Ink, and the words and pictures of the Lord were brought to the houses of the children of Nielsen...
...more than 25 years, Novelist Donald Newlove would not separate his need to write from his need to drink. He put himself in excellent company. Literary history is strewn with ego-alchemists who believed that they could turn alcohol and ink into art. But the marathon effort of a novel requires a clear head for architecture, and wine, as Dr. Johnson put it, "makes a man mistake words for thoughts...
...turn those paper profits into real revenue, biologists with the prerequisite gene-manipulating skills are being recruited at a furious pace. Young scientists, the ink barely dry on their Ph.D.s, are being offered $30,000 a year, plus a little stock. Senior researchers are getting large chunks of the new companies. Others are fattening their relatively modest academic salaries by serving as part-time consultants to the new companies at fees of $1,000 or more...
Together the Times, the Sunday Times and three supplements (Literary, Educational and Higher Education) have lost some $150 million since 1967, $32 million in 1980 alone. Much of that red ink was caused by the Times Newspapers print unions, which are notorious for featherbedding and work disruptions; their unruly behavior and opposition to laborsaving new technology finally drove out the last owner, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization. Murdoch, who also owns the London Sun (circ. 3.7 million), News of the World (circ. 4.2 million) and New York Post (circ. 640,000), picked up the five Times publications at the bargain...
...COLOR OF THE INK on the book jacket says it all. It shrieks; The Testing Trap: How it can make or break your career and your children's futures, and, in case the message isn't clear enough, the word "break" is printed...