Word: barney
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...keep it warm an hour a week by watching Star Trek videos. Public Broadcasting has taken a beating in recent years from critics and Congress, but it remains the single most important and trustworthy friend for our children, be they watchers of Arthur, Sesame Street or that big doofus Barney. The basic mission at pbs is to get children to learn. The basic mission almost everywhere else is to get children...
...head hurts. Signifies any daytime show such as Live with Regis & Kathie Lee, Montel Williams, Barney & Friends. See also: MHHSMIGTCIO--my head hurts so much I'm going to chop it off. Signifies the Rosie O'Donnell Show...
Mentioned briefly in the book was a yarn, told secondhand to Friedman by a couple who attended one of his lectures in 1972. They claimed that a friend named Grady ("Barney") Barnett, now dead, had told them about coming upon a crashed saucer on the Plains of San Agustin, N.M., about 150 miles west of the Foster ranch, in 1947. Before being shooed away by military police, he claimed, he had spotted several little bodies strewn nearby. Since the story had no apparent connection to Roswell and was given scant credence by Friedman and the authors, it was generally ignored...
...investment in Comcast to drive it all home. "In one day there's an epiphany," observes the FCC chairman, Reed Hundt. Gates is the premier techno-futurist of our time. "He's saying what's past is past--this is the future," notes media analyst John Reidy at Smith Barney. Some cable executives may now enjoy vindication for their expensive strategies, and investors may reap the rewards for their patience--although cable stocks have been so horrible that they'll have to shoot much higher to make up for lost time. Tele-Communications, Inc., a cable bellwether, is down...
...tinkering with the Maastricht rules is anathema--and a potential threat to his re-election chances next year. "Kohl's already having trouble selling the German public on the idea of exchanging their hard D-marks for soft euros," says Paul Horne, a Paris-based international economist with Smith Barney. "If Jospin puts conditions to the Germans that they can't accept, it's goodbye euro." No wonder Kohl made a long phone call to Chirac the day after the election to seek assurances on France's future European policy...