Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smaller markets can augment circulation by as much as 30%. Fourth is a tradition of operating papers as public institutions, not just money-making machines, set by the late owners of the two biggest and best Florida dailies, John Knight of the Herald and Nelson Poynter of the St. Petersburg Times...
...Florida Keys last year resulted in the resignation of a state attorney. The Fort Myers News-Press disclosed that a $1 million road plan benefited only the would-be developer of a housing tract; the road project was canceled. In an unusual joint venture, the Herald, St. Petersburg Times and Orlando Sentinel Star are spending $75,000 to computerize records of every contribution of $50 or more to candidates for Congress, the governorship, the legislature and elective state cabinet posts...
...papers are equally good at nongovernmental digging. Lucy Morgan of the St. Petersburg Times was a runner-up for a Pulitzer Prize this year for tracing the flow of drugs into two rural Florida counties. So was Ken Wells of the Miami Herald for reports on drought and water management. Herald Reporter Gene Miller won Pulitzers in 1967 and 1976 for exonerating individuals convicted of murder...
...Lenin because he is still, in the words of the Russian poet Mayakovsky, "more alive than all the living." His portrait graces billboards and blackboards alike. His name lends its dignity to Moscow State University, the city library, and entire metro system, not to mention what was formerly St. Petersburg...
...Petersburg...