Word: aligning
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...staring out at one of those interminably gray Cambridge days and pondering what will happen to you when you're spewed forth from the hallowed halls of Harvard into the real world. This is the type of self-induced depressive state that you have to be in to cosmically align yourself with British pop group London Suede's new album, Dog Man Star...
...some would take the former, but most would try to get into that holy section 14. Just as in the academic realm, students will align themselves according to their interest level, time commitments, and pain threshold for the specific sort of material that any given class (or social service program) promises to mete out. Some will undoubtedly take advantage of the programs...
That big idea now has the TV world rocking. After less than two weeks of negotiations, Fox and New World brought about the most sweeping affiliation shake-up in network-television history. In return for an investment of $500 million from Fox, New World agreed to align 12 of its stations -- in such major markets as Detroit, Dallas, Atlanta and Phoenix, Arizona -- with Murdoch's scrappy young network. In each city, Fox will switch from a UHF station (one of those occupying the channel numbers above 13, which historically have had weaker signals and lower viewership) to a stronger...
...network's stock has dropped 11% since the Fox announcement, and the affiliation shake-up could have more depressing ramifications. Ratings for the CBS Evening News, for example, already in the doldrums, could be further hurt if the network is forced to align itself with former Fox stations that, typically, do not have an early-evening newscast as a lead-in. In any case, the inevitable scramble for affiliates promises to be a no-win game for all three networks. "There's going to be a lot of churn at the networks," says Stringer. "Loyalty just went out the window...
...addition, when Clinton institutes his national service plan, he could conveniently align it with the Joan department. Students who go into default could automatically move into some kind of service job to help them meet their payments...