If you took a 15 inch artillery shell moving at the velocity it typically goes at, and take that amount of kinetic energy versus the resistive capacity of a sheet of tissue paper, that's the scale that we're looking at here.
There he was in his office, an office cluttered with stacks of paper to a scale that was legendary, though he had us convinced he knew where every one was.
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.