Word: airing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...station, which moved its transmitter from the top of Holyoke Center to One Financial Center in Boston after a fundraising drive in 1995, sells on-air advertising to subsist, and plays the time-tested music that its loyal listeners enjoy...
...were to allow students to have their own `shows' on any musical selection, our air would become fragmented, more so than it already is," Vasan writes. "This would reduce our commercial viability. In radio broadcasting, format fragmentation is extremely harmful for long-term viability...
...Harvard radio is far more about undergraduatesthan many places," Vasan says. "Many collegesdon't have radio stations; many don't havestudents running their radio station's management;many don't have students doing the station's air;some are unashamedly commercial...
...Kosovo is far and away the worst of the current crises. Vowing not to permit another slaughter like Bosnia's, the NATO allies threatened Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic last June with air strikes unless he halted his security forces' attacks on the rebellious Albanians. Even if Clinton hadn't been bedeviled by scandal, the threat would have been difficult to carry out. France refused to go along with military action unless the U.N. Security Council approved, and Russia promised to veto any resolution that authorized...
Washington was also stuck in internal wrangling. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wanted the White House to push harder for NATO military action, but Defense Secretary William Cohen balked, fearing air strikes would only embolden the Kosovo Liberation Army, then at the peak of its strength and demanding an independent state, which Washington opposed. Clinton was too distracted to knock bureaucratic heads or force the allies to carry out their threat. The indecision "proved to be a disaster," says a U.S. diplomat. "Milosevic took the measure of the West and decided he could take advantage...