Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excitement of the Harvard Crimson is best exemplified by its newsroom: desks crashed together, telephones screeching in the background, the ubiquitous tapping that results in electronic words which will result in inky newsprint prose the next...
Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. The top 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...
...seized by Serbian troops. U.N. officials have allowed the thefts to take place. Heavily armed Serbian forces surrounding Sarajevo airport skim a large share of every relief shipment as a form of safe-passage payment, carefully selecting all the meat, telephone gear, fire- fighting equipment as well as the newsprint being donated for an independent paper...
...this for a benefit/cost analysis of the recycling bill? Quayle owns $350,000 of stock in family controlled Central Newspapers, a conglomerate that owns seven newspapers, two paper mills and a plant devoted to producing virgin newsprint and that reportedly belongs to the same industry organizations that lobbied against the EPA proposal...
...creates productive economic activity wherever possible. In large measure, the present disequilibrium in recycling is the result of policies that work at cross-purposes with those goals and with one another. Environmentalists argue -- correctly -- that recycled materials suffer in the marketplace against virgin materials because of government subsidies. Newsprint producers, for instance, are indirectly subsidized through public-area logging and logging access roads. The depletion allowance for petroleum subsidizes producers of oil-based plastics. "If these costs are taken into consideration," contends Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, "recycling looks economically a lot more competitive...