Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Computers dazzle and inspire their followers, creating so many eunuchs before the temple of silicon and fiber optic. They can be magical tools that bring you a radio broadcast from Omaha to your desktop or run a complex multivariable regression analysis or provide up-to-the-minute stock quotes...
...thought about confessing,? he told the Associated Press Tuesday. But Daniel Petrocelli, the lawyer who successfully sued Simpson two years ago for $33.5 million over the deaths, claims to see evidence of a ?creeping confession? in O.J.?s media appearances. His biggest piece of evidence: An interview to be broadcast today on British television, in which Simpson jokingly attacks presenter Ruby Wax with a banana. ?That was astonishing behavior,? says Petrocelli, ?even if you?re an O.J. believer... if he were truly an innocent man, he would be incapable of jesting about this...
...ordinary Iraqis, however, there was little comfort: Messages broadcast on Baghdad?s streets this morning intoned, ?Happy birthday to you, Saddam Hussein! May God add from our age to yours...
...Percentage of programs on broadcast and cable television last year that contained violence...
That's why the presidential town hall on race and sports, broadcast by ESPN last week, was so disappointing. The discussion rarely rose above the level of sports-talk radio. A few urgent topics--such as how the millions of dollars earned by black and Latino pro athletes can be converted into durable economic development for their communities--were briefly touched upon. But most of the exchange was, well, inside baseball--so narrowly focused on the inner workings of big-league college and professional sports that any lessons for the larger society were left unclear. How, for example, increasing...