Word: channelized
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Suddenly, the mood shifts. The video sequence leading into ESPN’s introduction of their announcers is the seventh game of the 2003 ALCS. There’s immediate uproar as the remote control is located and the channel promptly switched before the monstrosity that is Aaron Boone’s home run replays...
...real estate is the new stock market, could HGTV et al. be the new CNBC? Helped by the post- (and maybe even pre-) 9/11 "nesting" trend, the small home channel has grown into a Top 15 cable network, and now has company including DIY, Fine Living and Discovery Home. A slew of new home shows are reflecting how the house has changed from nest to nest egg, focusing not on how to appoint the perfect family room but how to buy low and sell high in a heated real estate market...
Dave Rosgen, his smile shaded from the midday sun by the brim of his cowboy hat, moves easily along a branch of the main channel of Colorado's Blue River, casting his fly rod. One after another, big rainbow trout take his flies, jumping and fighting the line until he plays each one out to the bank, removes the hook and gently returns the fish to the clear, cold water. Rosgen, a hydrologist, helped bring this stretch of river back to life. The land along the water here had been hammered by years of cattle grazing, the banks eroded after...
...banks with chunks of broken concrete or the bodies of junked cars. Rosgen saw that as absurd and destructive. Instead, he studies the geological features of the streambed to determine its ideal "meander geometry"--the way the stream should flow--thus preventing sediment buildup that could block the channel or erode the banks. He then uses natural materials to give the river a kind of eco-makeover. "I try to copy what works in nature," he says...
LYON: We expect advertising to pick up and benefit Gannett and Clear Channel. They have very little capital spending and don't have to worry about Indian and Chinese competition. The second thing we like is everything geared to investment banking and brokerage. We are in the early stage of an up cycle, and business is taking off. We own Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The other major theme we have is to own the companies that supply emerging markets, and that means both energy and agriculture. British Petroleum has a 4% yield. It has a big interest...