Word: advent
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...location indifferent, we are language indifferent, and we are platform indifferent. It's markets that matter. We are going to be threatened by the advent of broadband. In South Africa, it will be five, 10 years before they have urban broadband, and so one of our really amazing growth products in South Africa is our Zulu paper, which had a 25,000 circulation last year, up to 105,000 this year...
...chairman of the FCC, has come forth with a new plan that would relax this restriction and allow companies to control radio stations, newspapers, and television networks in the same city, within certain guidelines.The impetus is understandable, given the difficulties that all three media formats have faced. The advent of 24-hour news coverage means that the old news formats just don’t cut it like they used to. The Internet has the advantage of being able to incorporate all three media formats without any of the usual time delays—YouTube is now the most effective...
...With such fervent ideological partisans of free speech as higher education’s mouthpieces, one could expect similarly impassioned rhetoric to accompany the advent of “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” today. An initiative led by the neoconservative critic of academia David Horowitz and others, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week intends to highlight the silence about atrocities committed in the name of Islam on college campuses, where blaming America is all in vogue...
...Rugby's decline can be traced to the advent of professionalism in the mid-1990s. The rugby pitch has always been crowded, with 30 players and almost no space between the teams. That there was once a stronger link between enterprising attack and tries was largely due to the fact that the amateur players of yesteryear would tire to an extent that today's pros - bigger, faster, fitter - don't. Imagine rugby league adding two extra players to each side and changing the 10-m rule to a 0-m rule. The resultant stalemate would be a guide to what...
...line is representative. The problem remains that most Americans already know the suffering of the Clive Davises of the world. They simply do not care. The record companies have been pouting for nearly a decade, nervously adjusting their ties in anticipation of a business model rendered rudderless by the advent of the Internet and new media. Most Americans still click “download” without a tinge of sympathy, not out of contempt for their favorite musicians but for the grubby intermediary that skims around 85 percent off each record sale. But now their desperation has begotten tactics...