Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pity the poor beleaguered cable guy. Direct-broadcast satellites are eroding his turf from the air while the Baby Bells and the burgeoning Internet creep in over the phone system. Worse still, he faces this growing competition while trying to shake a public image only a bit more benign than Saddam Hussein...
Turner won the Miss Massachusetts contest and placed among the top 10 in the Miss America contest, which was broadcast live across America from Atlantic City, N.J., last September. During her term, she juggled her pageant responsibilities with a full course load...
Afew weeks later, Chelsea's bright, beaming face would be broadcast on a jumbotron at the Democratic convention, and a new era of press coverage for Chelsea would begin. Stories of how she had "finally blos-somed into womanhood" and "come out of her well-protected shell" would mark the beginning of an image makeover for the First Daughter, and her reentry into public life. Even Hillary would tantalize the press with the statement that "Chelsea is dating...
...occur when magnetic field lines in the solar wind connect with those that surround the earth, creating a kind of funnel that channels huge quantities of solar plasma into the magnetosphere. In response, powerful currents surge through the high reaches of the atmosphere, where they can utterly scramble broadcast signals, and even through seawater and bedrock. These surface currents can corrode buried pipelines, interrupt transatlantic phone conversations and overheat electrical transformers. In 1989, during the most recent solar maximum, currents induced by a geomagnetic storm brought down the power grid that supplies Canada's Quebec province...
...their exploiting our resources. Why should we expect them to be benign and kinder to us than we were to the now extinct dodo? Perhaps the vast distances of space and the limits of relativity are a blessing. We might be better advised to listen more and broadcast less. RICHARD MARSHALL Tongaat, South Africa...