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...that reason, the Post Office encouraged newspapers by offering them low mailing rates. During Washington's Administration, a congressional committee explained: "The circulation of political intelligence is ... justly reckoned among the surest means of preventing the degeneracy of a free government." The policy worked; the Post Office's cheap rates were the most important single factor in the development of the U.S. press. From 1801 to 1830, the number of newspapers in the country increased from...
Last week the Commerce Department reported the surest sign yet that a recovery is taking hold. The economy's index of leading indicators, which had fallen for eleven straight months until March, rose in May for the third consecutive month. This was the first three-month rise since 1972 in those indicators, which usually move ahead of the overall economy and fore tell its future course. Among the sensitive leaders that were up in May were new orders for consumer goods, contracts for plant and equipment, building permits, the size of the money supply and common stock prices...
Perhaps the surest indicator of the Crimson's decided superiority in the game was the fact that for the first time this season, everyone on the roster saw action. Bruce Poliquin and Jim Michaelson gave regular net-minder LeRoy Thompson fourth quarter relief, though he little needed it in a relatively easy outing...
...smallest goalies in the league; he has neither the reach nor the muscle that helps such players as Montreal's Ken Dryden deflect shots with shoulders and legs. But Vachon makes up for his lack of size with one of the surest, fastest gloves in the game-and an extra dose of daring that gets him to the puck no matter how heavy the hitting around the goal...
...public access does bring awkward copy and added costs; air time and newspaper space are expensive, and staff must be used to channel the flow of incoming opinions. But the practice will proably expand even further, partly because it is intrinsically just and partly because editors find it the surest way to deflect charges of unfairness. "There was a time when you could bump into an editor in the barber shop and tell him what was on your mind," says Robert Burdock, Plain Dealer managing editor. "But times have changed. Now letters and other kinds of reader expression...