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724
(Minneapolis) Star Tribune

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, May 01, 2008

Last Update To Bluesheet: September 1, 2005

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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 Star Tribune is the largest circulation newspaper in the upper Midwest, with a daily circulation of over 400,000 and a Sunday circulation of over 670,000. Emphasis is given to high technology, the food processing industry, and sports. Important regional organizations include 3M, Control Data, Cray Research, Honeywell, Medtronic, General Mills, Land O' Lakes, Pillsbury, Hormel, International Multifoods, the Minnesota Twins, the Minnesota Vikings, Alliant Techsystems, Dayton Hudson, Jostens, Nash Finch, and Norwest. THE STAR TRIBUNE IS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED ON DIALOG.



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     S AU=(JOAN(1N)JACKSON)

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     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: January 1989 to February 1996
File Size: 350,890 records as of February 1996
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]


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
GENERALN General News Files
PAPERS Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.)
PAPERSCE U.S. Central Region Newspapers
PAPERSMN Minnesota Newspapers


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Terms and Conditions [top]

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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    08359082 
  /TI   NASA   RETOOLS  PLANETARY  EXPLORATION  SMALLER,  CHEAPER MACHINES ON THE 
    LAUNCHING PAD 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  STAR TRIBUNE (MS) - Sunday, December 24, 1995 
  AU=  By: John Noble Wilford, New York Times 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: Metro Edition  Section: NEWS  Page: 06A 
    Word Count: 843 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  On  the day of the Galileo spacecraft's rendezvous with Jupiter this month, 
    Daniel  Goldin,  head  of  the  nation's  space   agency,  struck a boldly 
    optimistic  note  about the future of planetary exploration. By the turn of 
    the  century or soon afterward, he predicted, his agency could be launching 
    spacecraft once every month -- small, relatively cheap machines designed to 
    explore  the  solar  system  and search for Earth-size planets around other 
    stars. 
     
         ''People  say  the  best of the space  program is behind us,'' Goldin 
    said. ''But I disagree. The best is yet to come.'' 
     
  /TX  His  words  cheered  the  audience  of  scientists and engineers at the Jet 
    Propulsion  Laboratory  in  Pasadena,  Calif., where the Galileo mission is 
    directed  and  where  teams of planners are busy dreaming up and starting a 
    variety of projects to revitalize planetary exploration. They believe -- at 
    least  hope  --  they  have  hit  upon  a  strategy for achieving important 
    scientific objectives within the constraints of ever-tightening budgets. 
     
         Plans  are  well  under  way to dispatch two craft to Mars  late next 
    year,  one  to orbit the planet and the other to land an automated rover on 
    the  surface.  The ambitious Cassini mission is set for a 1997 launching to 
    Saturn  and its giant moon Titan. Early work has begun for a flight back to 
    the  Moon,  more  missions to Mars  in 1998 and a craft to fetch some dust 
    from a comet. 
     
        Preliminary  plans  call  for  many  flights of small vehicles aimed at 
    testing new technologies for substantially reducing costs. Progress is also 
    being  made  in devising an affordable mission to Pluto, the only planet in 
    the solar system yet to be visited by spacecraft. 
     
    Pipe dreams? 
     
        If  Goldin's pep talk encouraged these planning teams, it probably came 
    as  a  surprise  to everyone else for whom the days of prodigious planetary 
    scouting  seemed to belong very much to the past. The Pioneers and Voyagers 
    of  yesteryear  are  coasting  to  the  edge  of  the  solar  system, their 
    discoveries behind them. 
     
        The Vikings are silent relics on Martian plains. Magellan, which mapped 
    Venus  by  radar,  had  to  be  scuttled  for  lack  of money to extend its 
    operations.  Galileo,  launched  six  years ago, is the only spacecraft now 
    actively exploring a planet. 
     
        Are  Goldin's  ambitious plans anything more than pipe dreams? At least 
    he has won support in the White House for his philosophy of smaller, better 
    and  less  expensive  spacecraft.  He  also  seems  to  have  overcome  the 
    bureaucratic   inertia   within   the   National   Aeronautics  and  Space 
    Administration.  But congressional support is more problematic. Unrelenting 
    pressure  to  cut  federal  spending could jeopardize these and other NASA 
     endeavors. 
     
         Under  the  circumstances,  John  Pike,  head of space  policy at the 
    Federation  of  American Scientists, a private group in Washington, doubted 
    that  the  space   agency  would  be  able  to keep shuttle flights going, 
    develop  a  space   station  and  still  have  money  for  any substantial 
    planetary programs. 
                                    (...) 
     
    CAPTION: 
  SF=, /CP   Photograph 
                    STAR TRIBUNE : MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL : Copyright 1995 
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  space ; agency; budget 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S SOLAR(W)SYSTEM
/CP CP Caption3 Word S PHOTOS/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S SPACE/DE
S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S SPACE(W)AGENCY/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S NEWS/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S LAUNCH?(W)PAD/TI
/TX TX Text Word S GALILEO(W)SPACECRAFT?/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=(JOHN(1N)WILFORD)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=SUNDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=METRO?
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=MS
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=STAR TRIBUNE?
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=DECEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19951224
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=06A
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1995
RG= RG U.S. Region5 Phrase S RG=CENTRAL
SF= SF Special Feature1,6 Phrase S SF=PHOTO
SH= SH Section Heading2 Phrase S SH=NEWS
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=MN
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: (Minneapolis) Star Tribune[724]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.04
Cost per minute:                   $0.63
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.41    $1.41
     3    $1.41    $1.41
     5    $1.79    $1.79
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.98    $2.98
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.20    $3.20
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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