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...loss of the Globe-Democrat will leave metropolitan St. Louis (pop. 1 8 mil lion) with only one regional newspaper, the 105-year-old Post-Dispatch. It will also shrink to 50 the number of U.S. cities with independency owned, editorially competitive dailies. The failure defied several newspaper-industry rules of thumb: the morning Globe-Democrat (daily circ 255,000) is bigger than the afternoon Post-Dispatch (daily circ. 230,000); it is published at what is considered a more advantageous time of day; and it is, at least in terms of local coverage, the better paper Nonetheless, the economic...
...game relegated to the rough and tumble who muck about for hours, and then celebrate by balancing mugs of beer on their heads, and of course on their longues. Even loyalists, bent on preserving tradition--the chants, Pig Roasts, and leaving teammates behind on road trips--do not shrink from the tale that rugby started with marauding Britons who played a mean keep-away with the heads of slaughtered Druids...
They already knew that a star of about the sun's mass would collapse after its nuclear fires died out and shrink to an earth-size object called a white dwarf. But what would happen if the dying star were significantly larger than the middling-size...
...Chairman Charles Brown said at a press conference that the company planned to shrink its worth by $5.2 billion at year's end. That means that the largest divestiture in history will be preceded by the largest financial write-down in history...
...going to be a place in the West for smaller systems that don't go everywhere and do everything." Santa Fe and Southern Pacific intend to become more efficient by abandoning duplicate routes and pooling equipment. The combined 57,000-member work force of the two railroads will shrink, but probably through attrition rather than layoffs...