Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bought by General Electric in June, News President Lawrence Grossman insists there are no plans to cut his $230 million budget or 1,330-member staff. Nonetheless, NBC News has hired McKinsey & Co. management consultants to study the newsgathering operations, and rumors ( persist that next year will bring a 10% slash...
...budget pressures come at a time when the three networks are already contending with a growing challenge to their onetime dominance of international and national TV coverage. The competitors -- Cable News Network, syndicated news-feed services and local stations -- all use the same satellite technology the networks do to bring live pictures from around the world. Though the number of people watching Rather, Brokaw and Jennings has remained steady at about 44 million, the networks' share of the overall audience has gradually declined. In 1980 the three broadcasts attracted 72% of the viewers; so far this season the proportion...
...even the smallest bureau can run up a $500,000 annual tab. CBS spends nearly as much on Diane Sawyer's $1.2 million contract as on the three bureaus it will be closing down -- Warsaw, Bangkok and Seattle. But in a business where personalities win ratings and ratings bring profits, Sawyer wins in a walk...
...even if the forces insisting on SDI deployment nevertheless were to prevail, the U.S.S.R. would not be left in a hopeless position. It could bring to a halt any reduction of its strategic forces and begin accelerated construction of mobile strategic missiles and cruise missiles, which would thus replace vulnerable silo-based missiles. As I have noted, such substitution is desirable for other reasons...
...late afternoon the lecture is coming to a close, but the best is still to come. Tonight, and probably continuing far into tomorrow morning, there | will be a seisiun, as in jam seisiun. Fledgling pipers will bring out instruments they really know how to play -- fiddles, hammered dulcimers, tin whistles, mandolins -- and dream of a day when they might join the elite. When a good seisiun is in the air, the word spreads, and the chance to play with not just one but five or six of the best pipers in the country all at once will bring out Irish...