31.   Samuel Talmadge Ragan, the poet laureate of North Carolina and a veteran newspaper executive, died on Saturday at his home in Southern Pines, N.C.

32.   Richard Harrington, its top newspaper executive, will become chief operating officer in July and will replace Michael Brown as chief executive in January.

33.   Some newspaper executives acknowledge that the psychology of scarcity has taken hold.

34.   The investment community with which newspaper company executives must contend is not monolithic.

35.   The Philadelphia newspaper executives are to be tested, in effect, on whether their plan will cut enough costs to satisfy the corporation.

36.   The notion of challenging Monster with a local approach is one often heard among newspaper executives and other vendors in the online job recruitment category.

37.   The organization is expected to dispatch a team of newspaper executives to Nuevo Laredo next year as fact-finders, Trotti said.

38.   Those he called on included heads of junior high schools and newspaper executives who knew their young newspaper carriers.

39.   Throughout the rise to prominence as a newspaper executive, Tarver maintained an acerbic sense of humor.

40.   While newspaper executives say that Internet ad services are a threat, they vow to fight back.