Word: battleground
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...outdone, terrestrial-radio groups are migrating to digital and see cell phones as a content battleground too. The nation's big station groups, including Clear Channel, Infinity and Citadel Broadcasting, are upgrading to enable FM stations to split their signal into multiple, digital streams. That will open up the airwaves for niche formats--all Elvis, all the time--and channels for targeted content like college sports. Digital music channels may also be offered ad-free, for a subscription fee, parrying satellite's advantage. "We're not gonna be on defense anymore," vows Infinity's CEO, Joel Hollander. Like other radio...
Forty years after V-E day, the world's greatest battleground is a Continent revived and prosperous, free from war for those four decades. It is also a Continent dramatically divided, slightly uncertain of its future, and sometimes sadly aware that it has yielded its place at the center of the world to the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...years to develop its electoral strategy while his had only eight months. And although he claimed that "my focus is not four years from now," he made sure his audience knew just how viable a candidate he had been--and could be again. "We actually won in the battleground states," Kerry said, adding that his loss in Ohio was so close that if "half the people ... at an Ohio State football game" had voted differently, he would be in the Oval Office...
...back as 1698, dealers met in Jonathan's Coffee House in London's teeming Change Alley to trade prices and shares. When the L.S.E. moved to a new, high-tech headquarters last year, Queen Elizabeth herself stopped by to dedicate it. But today the L.S.E, the battleground for many a corporate takeover, is itself about to be taken over - and neither of its two main suitors is British. Deutsche Börse, operator of the Frankfurt stock exchange, has proposed a $2.41 billion bid to buy the L.S.E. And Euronext - an upstart rival that runs the Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels...
John Vanburgh’s play, currently directed by Mark Wing Davey, tells the story of Brutes, who, flanked by a squadron of drunken rakes, debauched aristocrats and lascivious French maids, turns English Restoration-era London into a battleground for love and fidelity. Tickets available through the A.R.T.: seating section A tickets sell for $62-72 and B tickets sell for $36-49. Day of show student rush tickets are $12. Through Dec. 26th at the Loeb at various times...