Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take comfort in the fact that we are not alone. So many people are Doomophiles that some firms have banned it from their networks. At AT&T's Bell Labs, computer jocks quickly mastered all the levels, then created their own special challenges. If a Bell guy says, "Do Level 12, Mahatma Gandhi--style," he wants you to race through the level barehanded, without harming any monsters...
...depleted affiliate lineup), the question is whether this time a network has sunk so deep it can't rise to the surface again. "I'm not so sure the cyclical nature of the network business will operate the same way again and again and again for CBS," says Alan Bell, president of Freedom Broadcasting, which owns three CBS affiliates. "It's not the same CBS it was the last time they were on the bottom. It's much more demoralized and disorganized. It has lost many major-market stations. And any kind of merger is a real culture shock...
...though, it is people like Bell, the station-group executive, who will have to be satisfied. "Westinghouse has been very slow off the mark to say what they're going to do," he says, adding that if the company doesn't get its act together fast, he will think about switching affiliations. "I have a responsibility to the family that owns these stations to do the very best that I can for them. And it's difficult with what is happening. CBS is like a giraffe with a sore throat: you've got a lot of sore throat...
...CALORIES Its light menu flagging, Taco Bell adds Bacon Cheeseburger Burritos to its larder...
That's because Alma's lie-detection skills extend to Washington at large. "In a town where people race around answering every bell because they're terrified they might miss their big chance, Alma answers only the bells she chooses," says her friend Elayne Bennett, the wife of former Education Secretary William Bennett. "There's nothing she's after here." (Not that she is idle: without fanfare, she sits on the Kennedy Center board, makes sandwiches at a Washington soup kitchen, and finds time for the Red Cross, CARE and Best Friends, Elayne Bennett's program for inner-city girls...