Word: cantonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time Warner's Road Runner service, which began as a small trial in Elmira, New York, is available to 300,000 homes in Akron and neighboring Canton, Ohio, and is set to expand in Elmira and Corning, New York, this year, and to San Diego soon after...
Warner Bros. co-chairmen Robert Daly and Terry Semel were seen in the industry as Canton's sharpest critics. But this month they agreed to pay Arnold Schwarzenegger $25 million to appear as Mr. Freeze, the villain in the next Batman installment. Some executives are complaining that Warner is compounding the cost problem. Daly says the deal makes sense because Schwarzenegger's presence will boost the film's grosses, particularly overseas. Arnold is also taking "a lot less" of the film's gross profits than usual--he generally gets up to 20%--as well as a reduced share in profits...
Rarely do those who live inside the 495 loop have such a dual state and local prospective. The people of Medford, Dedham, Canton and Newton commute to Boston everyday, go to a restaurant in the city on the weekend, spend a week of their summer on the Cape, and if they don't read the Globe, they read the Herald. Some still hold onto a local spirit, but the overwhelming majority have only a metropolitan identity. To them, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is Boston...
...Crimson, the sixth seed in the tournament, played its best hockey of the season last weekend when it eliminated the third seed, St. Lawrence, at Canton, N.Y. Harvard snapped a nine-game losing streak last Friday with a 5-2 win, lost Saturday by a 3-2 count and then came back to take the decisive third game in an 8-4 blowout...
...then there was the surprise team of the weekend: No. 6 Harvard, a team that broke a nine-game losing streak en route to a 2-1 series victory over third-seeded St. Lawrence at Appleton Arena in Canton, N.Y. this past weekend...