Word: paper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fines and jail terms by striking a deal: it agreed to show its final-and most damning-article to the government before publishing it. That article, detailing how Distillers had been negligent in selling the dangerous drug in the first place, was firmly banned by a lower court. The paper appealed, but the Law Lords who act as Britain's highest court refused to bend the contempt law, leaving the Sunday Times nowhere else to turn to get the story published...
...paper, the U.S. at long last seems to be tempering its petroleum profligacy. Annual growth in demand subsided from 5% as recently as 1977 to 2% last year. But nearly all the improvement has come from conservation by industry, while individuals blithely go along wasting fuel. Not only has demand for gasoline, which accounts for one-third of the nation's fuel bill, continued to grow fast, but U.S. dependence on foreign oil has increased by nearly 50% since the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, and this year will reach some $50 billion...
...Massachusetts zoo superintendent says that he is "more comfortable with animals with humans." But he will have a hard time making kids believe it. This month, in celebration of Geisel's 75th birthday, his audience will be happy to raise their paper cups on high and testify...
...Michael J. O'Neill, editor of the New York Daily News (he is also a chairman of the editors' committee that commissioned the Yankelovich survey), accepts the recent shift to personal journalism. He has introduced "people" and "lifestyle" pages to his paper, and to his staff has added verbosely flamboyant reporter-columnists, 'ILo Jimmy Breslin, whose tough-guy sentimentality is often self-parodying. O'Neill just hopes it will be possible to provide more personal reporting without reviving that curse of the 1960s, opinionated advocacy journalism...
...homes feel no connection with reporters, even those with recognized bylines, who impersonally fill their front pages. That contrast asserts Arnold Rosenfeld, editor of the Dayton Daily News, often favors TV personalities "who we print journalists think do a pretty lame job of news gathering." If Rosenfeld's paper headlines a local story 3 DIE IN FLAMING CRASH, the paper's spare recital of the facts is "seen as a coldhearted attempt to retail death," says Rosenfeld, while the TV viewer sees "the professionally saddened visage of the newscaster, a friendly, likable fellow, as a natural human response...