Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More for a Revisionist. Under the Stalinist system of centralized planning, newspapers were arbitrarily allocated newsprint and assigned press runs. Often the runs far exceeded the sales, but no matter: the State Committee on Publishing merely split the cost of unsold copies between distributors and the publishers. For the past two years, however, the government has been trying to make selected industries operate on a supply-and-demand basis. Applying this principle to the newspaper business, the government ordered that press runs be more closely matched to actual sales -hence the sudden circulation drop...
Photographer Mark Rosenberg has contributed some interesting shots of poor folk, some sleeping on benches, some staring past his camera with weary eyes. Unfortunately, the reproduction process here has been, if anything, less successful than newsprint photo-offset...
...rapid-fire New England accent than that twangy Texas drawl preaching at us. Johnson is square, folksy and dullsville, sounding just like dozens of boring politicians from the past. The Kennedys are bright and new; they're with it. So are their in-laws: Jackie still commands more newsprint than Luci, cum wedding, Lady Bird and Lynda combined...
...Oliveira Campos, 48, a U.S.-trained economist and Brazil's onetime Ambassador to the U.S. Campos is doing more than trying to reform an economy; he is trying to discipline a national mentality. For a starter, he eliminated $200 million a year in government wheat, oil and newsprint import subsidies, thus halting a wasteful drain on Brazil's treasury. He then ended labor's inflation-producing 75%-to-100% wage hikes, slowed down the money presses, and began reforming Brazil's sievelike tax system to plug loopholes and improve collections...
...Marshall form is indubitably printed on lower grade paper than the newsprint on which the creation of these fellowships was originally announced. This is particularly apparent in contrast to the vellum-like bound used for Henry Fellowship applications. Your fingers may be too calloused from typing to ascertain whether the words are really embossed, but it's at least an even...