Word: splashiest
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Sulzberger's biggest challenge is to attract to an old gray newspaper those who now get most of their news from MTV. The splashiest effort to pull in these twentysomething readers is the start-up of a Sunday section called Styles of the Times. When he unveiled it for the Washington bureau at a brown- bag lunch, Sulzberger joked that young readers had better like it because all the older ones would drop dead when they...
TEXAS STATE FAIR, Dallas. Grab your 10-gallon hat for the largest (1989 attendance: 3.5 million) and splashiest state fair in the U.S. Texas-scale events include laser shows, pig races, college football in the Cotton Bowl and the entire touring company of the musical Cats. Through...
...splashiest growth areas has been criminal environmental law. The Justice Department now has 20 full-time lawyers working on such prosecutions, backed up by U.S. attorneys and FBI agents across the nation, plus 50 criminal investigators at the Environmental Protection Agency. In seven years, the Justice Department's special environmental unit has obtained more than 400 settlements or convictions against individuals and corporations, yielding fines of $26 million and prison sentences totaling 270 years. Among the defendants: Ashland Oil, fined $2.25 million last year for the collapse of a storage tank near Pittsburgh that discharged more than...