In 1983, Fred Fielding, the White House counsel, asked Roberts to evaluate a proposal then in circulation to create a kind of super appeals court to assist the Supreme Court with its ostensibly pressing workload.
It requires a big rise in circulation to offset that drop in ad revenue, and few popular broadsheet papers are likely to get the same boost as the Independent, which has a relatively small and young readership.
But the paper was now financially sickly, unable to keep up with developments in newspaper production, and losing circulation to its wealthy rivals who had learnt some tricks from the Observer and were now doing them better.
Suffering the worst circulation decline among the nation's 25 largest papers was the Dallas Morning News, which saw average daily circulation plummet 14% to 411, 919 due to recent decisions by parent Belo to scale back circulation beyond the paper's immediate readership area and to reduce so-called "third-party" circulation, which refers to papers that are distributed to hotels and schools.
Managers say that tax inspectors have raided the group's warehouses to check newsprint stocks, supposedly to see if the papers' circulation conformed to figures in the group's tax statements.
Weekday circulation has fallen 24% since 2006 to a recent 135, 282, while Sunday circulation has declined to 170, 381, from 228, 344 five years ago.
But the lack of investment showed, the paper looked thin and circulation continued to slide.
There he indulged his obsession, scouring the region for out-of-circulation fragrances to add to his personal collection.
These include a roof garden and roof windows which allow air circulation, to remove the need for air conditioning.
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In what the industry defines as the quality market, The Scotsman's circulation fell to below 33, 000 against 39, 000 last November.
McGhee says that title has more than 500 journalists, 48 editions and 4, 000 websites, and it's growing circulation (to about 800, 000) and revenues.
When they approached the circulation desk to check it out, the librarian looked at them with a touch of respect in his eyes.
As a survival measure, the city's Express and Echo went weekly in September, following its sister paper in Torbay, after circulation dipped to 16.586.
On Wednesday, the company said it expected growth in earnings per share - profits after tax divided by the number of shares in circulation - to fall to single digits next year, down from 13% during the latest three month period.
Economists use this category when looking to quantify the amount of money in circulation and trying to explain different economic monetary conditions.
Alas, after reading the bill, I now know it has nothing to do with print media companies, per se, and is not about to save The New York Times from its circulation problems due to competition from the web.
Those declines have become common to the newspaper industry as a result of shrinking circulation and migration to the Internet.
The idea was to get cash into circulation by giving it to those who were most likely to spend it.
The publication went from 12 issues a year to 10 and also cut guaranteed circulation from 8 million to 5.5 million.
"We also anticipate it will take many months for the new coins to reach significant circulation levels, giving extra time to adapt or replace machines and substantially reduce costs, " he said.
In a stricken euro-zone country, it would change hands at a discount to the remaining euros in circulation, foreshadowing the devaluation to come.
's New York Post increased average daily circulation 7.6% to 724, 748, maintaining its lead over its arch rival, the Daily News, which saw daily circulation inch up 1.4% to 718, 174.
That day it sent some 300 of its own employees and circulation staff out to hawk copies on the streets.
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Tony Ridder has also instituted a program that ties executive compensation to circulation rates-- a unique motivational strategy in the industry.
In this French gangster drama from 1962, a small-time hood, Maurice Faugel (Serge Reggiani), returns to circulation after four years in jail.
By the time Mr Montgomery took charge in 1992, after the death of Robert Maxwell, the paper's circulation had fallen to 2.9m.
Now city officials estimate the population at around 300, 000, and the paper's circulation was down to 179, 834 for the six months ending March 31, 2008.
In 1950, its circulation stood close to eight and a half million, an astonishing command of the reading public, but had since fallen to around six million.
The rise doesn't count the Food Network Magazine, a joint venture of Hearst and Scripps, which announced earlier this month it is increasing paid circulation again, to 1.25 million.
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