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...obituaries had been written for New York Newsday, the Norfolk Ledger-Star in Virginia, the Baltimore Evening Sun and the 93-year-old Greenville Piedmont of South Carolina, while a grand total of 13,000 newspaper employees, 2.6% of the newspaper work force, lost their jobs or took buyouts. Downsizing, cost cutting, merging, closing: these catchwords not only dominated the papers' business pages but also became the stories of the newspapers themselves. IF YOU THINK THIS WAS A BAD YEAR, warned a headline in a newspaper trade magazine, BETTER GET USED...
...Nine companies, including Hearst, the New York Times Co. and the Washington Post Co., are participating in the New Century Network, a project that connects local papers. The privately held Newhouse chain, which owns 26 daily papers, while pouring money into its newsroom operations at New Jersey's Star-Ledger, in Newark, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is also giving its online services a push. "What we are trying to do is reinvent the paper to the extent it is necessary to come up with a product that people in the '90s think is valuable and essential," says Star-Ledger...
...their 1978 tax returns, describing it as an itemized interest expense, to shelter some of the commodities profits. The Clintons had written a personal check in this amount to the McDougals' Great Southern Land Co. on Dec. 28, and the payment was reflected in the Whitewater accounting ledger as an "adjusting entry." But Whitewater apparently didn't pay anywhere near that much interest in 1978, and no documentation from the banks was offered to support such a claim...
...purpose of a memorial? What is it that elevates a memory, even a communal memory, to something more? Does simply going to war earn soldiers a monument at this university? Is a memorial merely an empirical marker, and the list of names displayed on it simply a ledger, informing posterity of those who died in which war? Or do we mean something more substantial when we build a memorial? Indeed...
What Knoll, Grotzinger and colleagues had done was travel to a remote region of northeastern Siberia where millenniums of relentless erosion had uncovered a dramatic ledger of rock more than half a mile thick. In ancient seabeds near the mouth of the Lena River, they spotted numerous small, shelly fossils characteristic of the early Cambrian. Even better, they found cobbles of volcanic ash containing minuscule crystals of a mineral known as zircon, possibly the most sensitive timepiece nature has yet invented...