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- <text id=92TT0563>
- <title>
- Mar. 16, 1992: Business Notes:Newspapers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 16, 1992 Jay Leno
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- NEWSPAPERS
- Free Ads for The Asking
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Need a job? With 9.2 million Americans, or 7.3% of the work
- force, now unemployed, the answer to that question is
- increasingly yes. So the Boston Globe, the largest newspaper in
- slump-ridden New England, has decided to do more than simply
- report the bad news. Beginning next week, the Globe will run
- free situation-wanted ads submitted during a limited period by
- people looking for work. Job seekers ranging from accountants
- to plumbers have flooded the paper with 500 submissions a day
- ever since it launched the campaign on March 1.
- </p>
- <p> The Globe said it will run the ads in its daily editions
- until all have appeared. The freebies will be one way to take
- up the slack caused by a nationwide dearth of help-wanted ads.
- According to the Conference Board, the volume of such ads
- plunged in January to the lowest level since 1983. Brother, can
- you spare a line?
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- </body></article>
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