Word: broadcasting
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Weeks passed, and then months. After a year, Robin's 1985 Porsche 944 was found in a parking lot at Austin's Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, apparently abandoned at the time of the disappearance. In May 1996, when Phil Donahue wanted Madalyn to attend his final broadcast, his executive producer hired a private detective to find her, to no avail. But what really fired the imagination of both the local and national press were the observations and surmises of David Travis. Travis, a Vietnam "foxhole atheist" who had lost his God while under enemy attack, had initially regarded the American...
That was eons ago, in pop-cultural terms. Records were still on vinyl; CDs, VCRs, video games and home computers were barely dreamed of; and films were shown in theaters or, years later, on broadcast TV. Before Star Wars, a blockbuster movie was one that everybody, of every age, wanted to see once. The big hits of the '70s--Airport, Love Story, The Godfather, The Sting, Jaws--were broad based, reflecting the audience's demographic democracy. Star Wars devised a novel equation: here was a film every teenage boy wanted to see a dozen times. Lucas spoke, from his bionic...
There's never been a medium as interactive for people as the Internet. It's a good thing for users who want to avoid ads, since they can browse right past them--and it may prove to be a bad thing for businesses stuck in the "broadcast mentality...
...money coming from the U.S. Other possible sources of assistance are international financial institutions and multilateral organizations. The plan recommends U.S. help in building up the country's judicial system, legislature and repairing its dilapidated infrastructure. To get the message across, the report will be translated into Spanish and broadcast to Cubans over the U.S. government's Radio Marti. Fidel Castro, who turns 70 this summer, has ruled Cuba since...
...maximum of fuss. State-run television and radio Monday proclaimed it a "great event" and urged Zairians to "show solidarity" with Mobutu by lining the streets from the airport to Camp Tashatshi, a military encampment with a presidential residence in Kinshasa. There, Mobutu is to make a rare broadcast address. Anyone who comes deserves one hell of a speech...