Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoppers! If you are wondering where to spin your TV dial this September, drop by any of the discount retailer's 2,200 stores. You will be regaled with signs and posters trumpeting CBS shows. Every TV set in the store will be tuned to CBS as well. The chain and the network are even teaming up to promote the CBS/K mart Get Ready Giveaway. The contest, to be advertised on the air and in K mart newspaper supplements, will offer viewers the lure of big prizes if they can match numbers on a card with figures flashed during commercial...
...there's more for your life at Sears -- at least, if you are an NBC fan. Along with posters, banners and in-store videos flogging the peacock network, the department-store chain and NBC have concocted a contest pegged to the fall season. Unlike the CBS game, however, you do not have to watch NBC shows to win; you just answer a few questions about them to vie for prizes like a new car or a guest appearance on an NBC show...
...social issues like the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as a variety of environmental groups. But what he can always take to the bank is his gift for songwriting, which keeps growing. Talking about the legacy of the Eagles, he says, "The Eagles were another link in the chain, a logical extension of what came before. But I don't think the '70s will ever be as important in the history of rock as the '60s, because you don't have the cultural and sociological upheaval combined with music." Fair enough. But there's a corner...
...coverage of last March's Alaska oil spill, was there anything left to report? Nation editor Jack E. White figured there was. In the Los Angeles bureau, Brown pored over National Transportation Safety Board reports and testimony by tanker crew members and others to unravel the complex chain of events. Then he went back to Valdez to talk with Coast Guard investigators. Says Brown: "I found the web of culpability surrounding the accident was almost as sticky and far-reaching as the spill itself." Meanwhile, New York correspondent Behar, who wrote the story, interviewed Hazelwood's family, friends and neighbors...
...fence post in his third-grade play. His father still calls him "Animal." As a petroleum geologist around Jackson, Miss., he drove a lot but was hard on automobiles. After he steered one company car into shallow water, the boss sent him a 20-ft. length of chain for Christmas. Bass acknowledges his clumsiness: "Sometimes I feel almost out of control." But he glories in a rare natural gift: "I know how to find...