Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the paper shortage, the cost of newsprint has risen, causing the selling price of recyclable paper to rise from $8 per ton last spring...
...pattern is the same in several other key industries. Paper mills last year found themselves unable to meet demand for products ranging from newsprint to grocery bags to cardboard boxes. This year, industry executives plan to increase spending on new factories and machinery by 34.4%, to $2.5 billion. Demand for steel far outstripped supply last year. Now the biggest steel users, the automakers, are cutting back orders sharply, but the nation's mills still cannot melt and roll steel fast enough to fill the needs of other customers. So, steelmen expect to boost 1974 capital spending...
Otten claimed that The Wall Street Journal's history of giving loose rein to its writers has anticipated a current push by other papers to include more in-depth reporting on newsprint...
Solzhenitsyn's response was quick in coming. In a statement issued to Western correspondents last week, he identified Novosti as a "reliable branch" of the secret police and accused Soviet authorities of "standing on their lies behind a fortress of newsprint." He declared that "world public opinion has thus far kept them from killing the author of Gulag or even from imprisoning him. That would indeed be a confirmation of the book. But there remains the time-honored method of slander and personal vilification that is now being vigorously pursued...
...classes, reading periods and vacations, grades neither amuse nor educate. They're important to Harvard's function as a credentials factory, of course, but for most of the university's other functions they're not worth the paper they're printed on--and in a time of a burgeoning newsprint shortage, conserving paper is almost as important as conserving fuel. With a little imagination, the Faculty could have reaffirmed Harvard's dedication to scholarship, led the way for other schools, and generally turned the fuel shortage to a good use. Instead of that, they just debated the exigencies of business...