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Rupert Murdoch once described them as the "rivers of gold"--the lucrative classified-advertising revenues that flowed into big newspaper groups. But the golden rivers are being diverted online as the Internet breaks the grip that local and regional newspapers once held over their advertising markets.
Typically, a local newspaper would expect to get some 80% of its revenue from advertising, of which around two-thirds would come from classifieds. But last year in the San Francisco Bay area, job ads worth some $ 60m were lost from newspapers to the web, reckons Classified Intelligence, a consultancy. Emap, a British publisher, recently gave warning of a 30% decline in recruitment ads in one of its titles, Nursing Times, following the launch of a free website for jobs in Britain’s National Health Service.
The Internet has become the fastest-growing advertising medium. Online ad revenues reached $5.8 billion in the first six months
A. newspapers earn a lot from ads.
B. the money flow like rivers into websites.
C. newspapers began to share the ad revenues with websites.
D. websites took away many ad revenues from newspapers.
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Rupert Murdoch once described them as the "rivers of gold"--the lucrative classified-advertising revenues that flowed into big newspaper groups. But the golden rivers are being diverted online as the Internet breaks the grip that local and regional newspapers once held over their advertising markets.
Typically, a local newspaper would expect to get some 80% of its revenue from advertising, of which around two-thirds would come from classifieds. But last year in the San Francisco Bay area, job ads worth some $ 60m were lost from newspapers to the web, reckons Classified Intelligence, a consultancy. Emap, a British publisher, recently gave warning of a 30% decline in recruitment ads in one of its titles, Nursing Times, following the launch of a free website for jobs in Britain’s National Health Service.
The Internet has become the fastest-growing advertising medium. Online ad revenues reached $5.8 billion in the first six months
A. newspapers earn a lot from ads.
B. the money flow like rivers into websites.
C. newspapers began to share the ad revenues with websites.
D. websites took away many ad revenues from newspapers.
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Once free of Etruscan domination, the Romans developed a Republican form of government which lasted until the first century BC, and provided important continuity for Roman institutions. The motto "S. P. Q. R. "--Senatus Populusgue Romanus, "The Roman Senate and People" reflected the philosophy of the early Roman political and social order and remained the watchword of Roman society until Imperial times. It meant that sovereignty rested in the people themselves, and not in any particular governmental form. Yet in many ways the Roman Republic functioned as a democracy. Decisions affecting society were made at a series of assemblies which all citizens attended to express their will. The Senate, on the other hand, conducted the business of government including the passage of legislation and the supervision of elected magistrates. Over the centuries the greatest issues affecting Roman society were played out as dramas created by tensions betwe
A. It suggests that The Roman Senate was elected by the people and governed the people.
B. It suggests that The Roman Senate was the highest authority.
C. It suggests that it was the people, not government, who held the power and right of the country.
D. It suggest that the Roman Republic functioned a democracy the same as America.
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