Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more outlets for it now. It used to be that the networks could say to me and you, 'Sit down at 6:30. That's when we will give you the news.' Now we pick when we have time to watch the news." The O.J. Simpson case also broke many viewers of the evening news habit: when the trial (carried live on several cable channels) ran into the evening newscasts in the East and Midwest, viewers simply continued watching the trial...
...case of life imitating art--or at least imitating television--the way in which Duritz and Aniston met and eventually broke up was like something out of an episode from her show. Says Duritz: "We were set up by our friends. She's a really nice person, but I think our thing had more to do with infatuation. Both of our friends that set us up told us how much each of us wanted to meet the other. They lied. But it got both of us thinking how great it is that this person likes me. And then we hung...
...tense moment in the game, a B.C. forward broke free from the Harvard defense and had an open shot on Albers...
...York market, Fox parent company News Corp. filed suit Wednesday to force Time Warner Cable to carry the fledgling network there. Fox argues that Time Warner, under an arrangement with the FTC specifying that it would carry another cable news channel besides CNN as it merges with Turner Broadcasting, broke a prior agreement by carrying the joint Microsoft-NBC news network MSNBC in this critical market instead of Fox News. Fox chief Rupert Murdoch says he will press for a permanent injunction against Time Warner's upcoming purchase of Turner and seek monetary damages. "Every city's cable system does...
...member Palestinian Legislative Council that was elected in January was supposed to check the power of Arafat's executive. But when a group of councilors was asked recently what percentage of their resolutions were implemented by the P.A., they broke out laughing. The answer was zero. Arafat has trampled on the supposedly independent judiciary as well. In mid-August the High Court in Ramallah ordered the release of 10 university students detained without being charged in a roundup of alleged Islamists. But Arafat squashed the order, explaining to a delegation from the Legislative Council that he had not been consulted...