Word: newtonism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Visit Newton Home...
Free papers often try to complement rather than compete with big-time rivals. The Newton, Mass.-based Tab, which gives away most of its copies but also sells a few thousand on newsstands every week for 25 cents, leaves foreign policy and national affairs to the prestigious Boston Globe. Says Tab Editor Russel Pergament: "The key to our success is that we're relentlessly local." In most cases, free-paper editors carefully tailor their stories to readers' tastes. Berkeley's East Bay Express, which operates out of the former headquarters of the Black Panthers, caters to young urban professionals...
Down to Basics. All the action can, of course, obscure the spirit that is being consecrated. Big wedding celebrations may have something to do with what Rabbi Murray I. Rothman of West Newton, Mass., calls "a resurgence of family feeling--and I consider the temple an extended family." Michael L. Bradley, executive secretary of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, wonders whether the resurgence "is religious or cultural. I'm inclined to think the catalyst may be cultural." And part of the consumer culture, at that. Many department stores now have computerized bridal registries and, reports Margaret McMillen of Bullocks Wilshire...
...when the market reverses course temporarily. Investors see that caution as a healthy sign; if too many of their kind were blindly optimistic, the market could set itself up for a big fall. "There is widespread disbelief, and that's the sign of the best kind of advance," says Newton Zinder, E.F. Hutton's senior market analyst. In fact, the recent one- month slump, triggered in part by a brief upsurge in oil prices, makes investors feel better because they have it out of the way, like a dose of castor oil. Says Donald De Lutis, a money manager...
...fine night in Newton, Massachusetts...