Word: channeler
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...major flaw in the system is that the ratings are displayed only for the first 30 seconds of the program. Although this may work for movies, when everyone gets to the theatre at the beginning, it is significantly less helpful for television shows, when people have the propensity to channel-surf and flip on the television in the middle of a program. If a kid had the savvy to turn on the television at 35 minutes after the hour, the ratings would be gone and he or she would reap the benefits of rating-less television...
These molecules had been suspected of being able to channel HIV "but this had only been suggested in recombinant DNA experiments," says Gabuzda. "This is the first time CCR3 has been shown to be the doorway...
Broadcasters will transmit both analog and digital signals for nine years until 2086, when all analog licenses will revert to FCC control. The old "channel 2 to channel 82" spectrum will be used for wireless Internet access, cell phones and other personal communications devices...
Even so, CBS executives project that the channel won't break even for six years. If it can hang on that long, digital technology--or a new generation of direct-broadcast satellites--is expected to increase capacity so much that getting space on the dial will no longer be a problem. The goal for CBS, like its network competitors, in this virtually unlimited marketplace is to accumulate shelf space--and hope that Eye on People is one product shoppers won't pass...
When Reich is worried that his memos are not getting through to the President, it is the First Lady who offers a back channel. "Send them to me," she says. "I'll see that they get to him. Use blank sheets of paper without any letterhead or other identifying characteristics. Just the date and your initials." Writes Reich: "Now I have my own loop." But of course, he didn't really. At one point, Reich describes waiting in a small anteroom outside the Oval Office with economic advisers Robert Rubin, Laura D'Andrea Tyson and Gene Sperling, only to learn...