Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next twist in TV games may be home-audience involvement. Two new shows planned for next season, Banko and WinAmerica Sweepstakes, will offer big cash prizes to viewers who play along at home with game cards to be distributed nationwide. The innovation could catch on, though the game-show community is wary. "You don't buy audiences with huge amounts of giveaway money," contends Mark Goodson, producer of such classics as To Tell the Truth and + Password. Chuck Barris, who has made a fortune as creator of such shows as The Dating Game and The Gong Show...
...Supreme Court agrees, what then? Congress wrote a fallback provision into the act: spending cuts sufficient to meet the deficit targets would be calculated and voted into effect by a joint resolution of Congress, subject to presidential veto. The big catch: it was precisely the inability of President and Congress to agree on any plan that would dramatically reduce deficits that drove them to support Gramm-Rudman in the first place...
...guide cars in the parking lot. Inside, caged canaries chirp and camera-toting tourists click away through worship. As the service begins, 90-ft. doors open to reveal twelve fountains, one for each apostle, and an 11-ft. by 15-ft. Jumbotron video screen, so the back pews can catch the preacher's every gesture. Schuller's sermons, taxing to neither spirit nor intellect, owe as much to psychology as to Scripture. They are peppered with greeting-card aphorisms for seekers of happiness and self-esteem. "Coping and hoping." "Turn your scars into stars." The cross is "a minus turned...
...have a chance to atone for that history and do something good. Whether she has 51 or 55 percent of the "official vote," it is time to back Corazon Aquino. Marcos, meanwhile, should be strongly encouraged by his Uncle Sam to do as did "Baby Doc" Duvalier and catch the next plane...
Once shuttle flights do resume, it will take years--whether two, five, six or more is anyone's guess--for NASA to catch up to the flight schedule it had mapped out before Challenger exploded. Three shuttles simply cannot carry out all the missions that had been assigned to a fleet of four. Meanwhile, there is sure to be a renewed, sharp debate about the goals of the U.S. space program, the role of the shuttle and even the perennial issue of manned vs. unmanned space flight...