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The Washington Times

Last Loaded on Web: Monday, April 01, 2013

Last Update To Bluesheet: September 1, 2005

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File Description Database Content DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories Basic Index Rank
Subject Coverage Document Types Indexed Contact Additional Indexes Predefined Format Options
Tips Geographic Coverage Terms and Conditions Limit Rates
Dialog File Data Special Features Sample Record Sort


File Description [top]

The Washington Times, of Washington, DC, provides both news summaries and full-length stories. File coverage is from June 1989 to January 30, 2012. Current updates to this news source continue to be available in Dialog NewsRoom. Coverage concentrates on Washington, DC and federal government, international affairs, the environment, health and social issues, the arts, sports, and entertainment.



Tips [top]

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USE AU=

to retrieve articles written by particular authors.

     S AU=(JOAN(1N)JACKSON)

USE TI,LP,DE FIELDS

to narrow search to particular topics.

     S TERMS/TI,LP,DE


Subject Coverage [top]

  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Business
  • Columns
  • Editorials
  • Features
  • Full Text News Stories
  • Leisure
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Sports
  • Wire Stories


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: June 1989 to January 30, 2012
File Size: 656,103 records as of January 30, 2012
Update Frequency: Closed


Database Content [top]

  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Newspaper Articles


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • US Only


Geographic Restrictions [top]

  • None


Special Features [top]

  • ERA Available
  • Graduate Education Program
  • KWIC and HILIGHT Available
  • DIALOG Alert Available
  • Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
  • CURRENT Feature Available


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
PAPERS Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.)
PAPERSDC District of Columbia Newspapers
PAPERSSE U.S. Southeast Region Newspapers
WASHNEWS Washington D.C. News


Contact [top]

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Terms and Conditions [top]

For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online. The following terms and conditions also apply.

Articles copyrighted by the individual newspapers. No part of any database may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from the individual newspaper. Customers should familiarize themselves with the terms and conditions relating to the use of each database (see DIALOG Information Provider Terms & Conditions).


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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    08721007 
  /TI  Clinton  trumpets  NASA  `triumph';  scientists  skeptical `Proof' of  Mars 
     life may alter missions 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  Washington Times (WT) - Thursday, August  8, 1996 
  AU=  By: Joyce Price - THE WASHINGTON TIMES 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: Final  Section: A  Page: A1 
    Word Count: 861 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  Researchers  from  NASA  and  three  universities  said yesterday they have 
    "quite reasonable evidence," if not "ultimate proof," of previous low-level 
    life on Mars, but other scientists were far from convinced. 
     
       "What  we've  seen here is a very compelling face for the possibility of 
    early  life  on  Mars,"  said  Everett Gibson, a planetary scientist at the 
    Johnson  Space Center and an author of a study to be published next week in 
    the journal Science. 
     
  /TX  "All  of  us are skeptical but thrilled and humbled by this prospect," NASA 
    Administrator  Daniel Goldin said. He said some of the National Aeronautics 
    and  Space  Administration's  10 planned Mars missions in the next 10 years 
    could be restructured and accelerated because of the new findings. 
     
       President  Clinton  hailed  the  findings  as  "another  vindication  of 
    America's space program." 
     
       "I  am  determined  that  the  American  space program will put its full 
    intellectual  power and technological prowess behind the search for further 
    evidence of life on Mars," he said. 
     
       The  president  said he asked Mr. Goldin to "ensure that this finding is 
    subject to a methodical process of further peer review and validation," and 
    he directed Vice President Al Gore to convene "a bipartisan space summit on 
    the future of America's space program" this year. 
     
       "We  are  committed  to  the  aggressive  plan  we have put in place for 
    robotic  exploration  of  Mars,"  Mr.  Clinton said. He noted that the next 
    unmanned mission to Mars is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center 
    in December and "to land on Mars on July 4, 1997, Independence Day." 
     
       The  president  offered this concise history of the rock from Mars - No. 
    84001, found in Antarctica in 1984 - that's causing all the stir: 
       "Four  billion  years  ago, this piece of rock was formed as part of the 
    original  crust of Mars. After billions of years, it broke from the surface 
    and  began  a  16-million-year journey through space that would end here on 
    Earth.  It arrived in a meteor shower 13,000 years ago." 
     
       While most scientists discount the possibility of life on the surface of 
    Mars  today,  Mr. Goldin and others at a NASA briefing yesterday said there 
    is the possibility of primitive life beneath the planet's surface. 
     
       "By the year 2001, we may want to consider some very bold missions where 
    we  bore  down  real  deep and bring back samples," Mr. Goldin said. "I ask 
    that  we  go  about  this in a systematic fashion, but maybe we'll go a lot 
    faster than we have in the past." 
     
       In  the  Science report, draft copies of which were released Tuesday, 15 
    researchers  from  NASA,  McGill  University, the University of Georgia and 
    Stanford  University  said  they  found  in the meteorite from Mars organic 
    molecules that appear to have been deposited by primitive life forms. 
     
                             (...) 
    CAPTION: 
  SF=, /CP  Photo,  NASA  displays Alan Hills 84001, the meteorite that has sparked the 
    dispute over primitive Martian life., By AP 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S MARS(S)MISSION?
/CP CP Caption3 Word S METEORITE?/CP
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S LIFE(S)MARS/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S A/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S NASA(S)MARS/TI
/TX TX Text Word S MARS(W)MISSION?/TX

1 Not available in all PAPERS files.

2 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

3 Also searchable using /TX.


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None AN DIALOG Accession Number
AU= AU Byline Word S AU=(JOYCE(1N)PRICE)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=THURSDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=FINAL
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=WT
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=WASHINGTON TIMES
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=AUGUST
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19960808
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=A1
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1996
RG= RG U.S. Region5 Phrase S RG=NORTHEAST
SF= SF Special Feature1,6 Phrase S SF=PHOTO
SH= SH Section Heading2 Phrase S SH=A
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=DC
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=9999
None WD Word Count

4 Newspaper code is also shown following the newspaper name in the Source Information field.

5 Regions are: NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST, CENTRAL, and WEST. Region does not display in predefined formats.

6 Special Feature may indicate the presence of PHOTO, GRAPH, DRAWING, CHART, TABLE, DIAGRAM, and/or MAP in the original article, not necessarily online.

7 Includes Newspaper Name, Publication Date, Edition, Section Heading, and Page Number.


LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
/LONG Word Count of 1,000 words or more S S8/LONG
/SHORT Word Count of less than 1,000 words S S9/SHORT
/YYYY Publication Year S S2/2002


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
JN, PD, TI SORT S13/ALL/TI
PRINT S5/5/1-24/TI


RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. RANK PY S3


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

User-defined formats can be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. TYPE S3/TI,PD/1-5


PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.
 DIALOGWEB
FORMAT		 RECORD CONTENT
1 -- DIALOG Accession Number
2 -- Full Record except Text
3 Medium Bibliographic Citation and Word Count
4 -- Bibliographic Citation, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count1
5 -- Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count
6 Short Title, Publication Date, and Word Count
7 Long Bibliographic Citation and Text
8 Free Title, Indexing, and Word Count
9 Full Full Record
K -- KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats


DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number TYPE 05805028/5
PRINT 00301964/9


Rates [top]

Rates For File: The Washington Times[717]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.38
Cost per minute:                   $0.97
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     5    $2.75    $2.75
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $4.50    $4.50
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $4.75    $4.75
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00
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