Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Star's laissez-faire attitude toward reporters has its drawbacks. "We're a hothouse for eccentrics," says Columnist Mary McGrory, one of the paper's most engaging eccentrics, with a well-used pipeline to the Kennedy wing of the Democratic Party. But this same freedom keeps staffers loyal to their paper. Though some are lured away by higher salaries elsewhere, many stay. They know they will be backed up in whatever they say. Despite the fact that the Star's top management thought all the criticism of the CIA last year was damaging to the national...
...readers: the Star's circulation has risen 51,078, to 309,245, in the past five years. In the same period, the Post's circulation increased 58,804, to 467,505. From time to time, the Star has held tentative merger talks with the other Washington afternoon paper, the sprightly Scripps-Howard News. But chances of such a union are dim now that the Star is well on its way to creating an authentic personality...
...primarily at minority groups. Edward Kenefick, general manager of Chicago's WBBM-TV, got the idea for the show when Urban League officials asked him to help find employment for young Negroes. The newspapers were full of want-ads, but only one-seventh of ghetto families see a paper, while two-thirds have TV sets...
Stock-trading volume has been setting new records with regularity in recent years, but nothing so overwhelming as the current surge of trading has ever before hit Wall Street. Caught in a growing backlog of paper work, most brokerage offices have been unable to process and deliver stock certificates as fast as they have been bought and sold. Last week the nation's leading securities markets decided to curtail their hours to enable clerical staffs to catch up, just as they did for nine market days last August...
...students to persuade banks to make loans to them at the six per cent interest rate specified by Congress. Easy money might not help the plan either, since bankers would rather lend their available funds to long-time customers. The loan program also requires a costly amount of paper-work...