Word: stockyard
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...these positions have been eroded as advertisers find more efficient distribution mechanisms, and the cash cows have arrived at the stockyard, burdened with all the inefficiencies that usually plague the once-plump. Newspaper dynasties, as aristocratic a lot as can be found on this continent, extracted generous dividends for generations and set up dual-class shareholding structures that let them enjoy all the trappings of press barony without the requisite skin in the game. Let us eulogize them respectfully and free up journalistic talent for sustainable models of news creation...
...used shock tactics in an attempt to further its cause, summed up by PETA President Ingrid Newkirk as “total animal liberation.” Last year, its activists began a campaign entitled “Holocaust On Your Plate,” likening the slaughter of stockyard animals to the genocide undertaken by Nazi Germany. On the PETA-controlled website dedicated to that campaign, www.masskilling.com, images from concentration camps are juxtaposed with images from the stockyards...
...evening of revelry at the Stockyard Restaurant in Allston, Mass., yesterday, the Harvard players erupted in cheers as they discovered their team had earned a 13th seed in the NCAA midwest regional. The 13th seed matches the best ever received by an Ivy women’s team. North Carolina, a fourth seed ranked 16th by the Associated Press, will be Harvard’s first round opponent on Saturday...