Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. This article, "Beating the System," won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson proudly ran it every reading period until 1962, when it irked one maligned and anonymous grader enough to reply...
...Daily readership today, at 64.2%, is comparable to what it was in 1985, and Sunday readership has actually grown consistently over the past 20 years to its current level of 72.6%. Although 1995 saw the closing of several papers, that was largely the result of the high cost of newsprint, the single largest expense, and not of circulation declines. Newspapers are not a victim of the information glut. In fact, they offer readers a way to cut through to the most important news of the day. Newspapers will continue to play an essential role in the lives of Americans well...
...days passed last year, it was as if some creeping, flesh-eating virus had got hold of the newspaper industry. Nearly every month brought fresh evidence of decay, proof that a major contraction, driven by skyrocketing costs for newsprint, was occurring among papers large and small, famous and obscure. In January the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel announced a merger, destroying about 500 jobs--and creating yet another one-newspaper town. In March the Fort Worth Star-Telegram abandoned its all-day edition. In April the Houston Post walked off the field, leaving its rival, the Chronicle, with...
...suicide of its lead singer, Kurt Cobain, has been written about, figuratively speaking, to death. In the liner notes to Nirvana's newly released live CD, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, bassist Krist Novoselic even declares, "Let all the analysis fall away like yellow, aged newsprint." If it were that easy, would O.J. still be in the news...
...began to teach their friends, and photocopied the pages so that others could so the same. Soon, the group decided to print up the information for distribution to area women who had heard about the project and were asking for their own copies of the information. Printed on flimsy newsprint and sold for forty cents, the first copy of the now-ubiquitous women's health manual Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women was born...