Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time was when an editorial frown in Pravda could destroy the career of a party apparatchik or send a dissident to jail. But the demise of the Communist Party following last August's coup and the rising cost of newsprint today have put the squeeze on the former party newspaper. With its circulation down from 12 million to 1.3 million, Pravda announced last week that it will henceforth appear only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. It may go out of business altogether in April...
...Johns' flags and targets and, earlier in the '50s still, the work of Larry Rivers -- a number of young artists emerged in New York City, Paris and London who had little in common beyond their curiosity about the largely disparaged sea of mass media and commercial persuasion: ads, billboards, newsprint, TV montage and all kinds of kitsch. In the '20s Dadaists and Surrealists had been fascinated by this too, but Pop art dived into it with a kind of wallowing abandon...
...have managed to reduce the number of spoiled or unusable copies that come off the presses, another savings of several thousand tons. Some magazines are being recycled to make newsprint and other grades of paper; we are also exploring ways to enable readers to recycle more magazines at the local level. In addition, we are experimenting with inks based on soybeans rather than...
...paper cup today, you'll probably feel guilty. Environmental groups at Harvard have done their best to make students aware of the ecological consequences of college life. Plastic plates are being phased out in the houses. Newsprint, aluminum cans and colored paper are being collected and recycled. Campus efforts are part of a national effort to save the environment...
...York State illustrates the predicament. Each year New Yorkers turn in 490,000 tons of newsprint for recycling (out of 1.4 million tons they purchase). Yet the area's newspapers use only 130,000 tons of recycled material yearly. Since the entire Northeast has just one recycling plant, much of the waste paper is shipped abroad for re-use. Suffolk County legislator Maxine Postal, who sponsored the tougher bill, claims that its whole point is to entice paper companies to add de-inking facilities (cost: $40 million to $80 million each) or to build new recycling plants (at $450 million...