Word: channelized
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...employees. Other dailies covered the outing debate. The Detroit News named the official twice in news stories; the New York Daily News identified him in a gossip column. All four TV news networks decided not to use the official's name, but secondary outlets used it, including cable channel CNBC, a corporate sibling of NBC piped into nearly 44 million homes, and New York station WPIX. Reasons ranged from sympathy with the gay activists' arguments to CNBC program executive Andy Friendly's observation, "Everybody's talking about this topic...
...music everywhere, on the air and on MTV, seems noisier than ever. Every time you change a channel it seems like some rapper is sticking his finger in your face: Yo! Listen...
Seven opposition groups have joined to protest the council's existence and urge that the old, suspended parliament be reinstated. Few Kuwaitis seem to care. By calling the council back, the Emir hoped to establish a nonthreatening channel for complaints. He has not been disappointed. Within days of the council's convocation, its members began receiving letters from citizens urging that it probe specific areas. The opposition may pine for the old parliament, but the populace appears content to treat the council as a legitimate avenue of expression (especially since it is as eager as the Emir to restore...
...state-run mess in the Soviet Union. "We've had some suggestions -- including some from Israelis -- that the worst thing we can do is send a $10 billion loan guarantee to the socialist system in place in Israel," says a senior official. Bush is considering a plan that would channel any new U.S. housing aid through private lenders, so that the money would be more likely to build shelter for Soviet immigrants and less likely to disappear in the sprawling Israeli bureaucracy...
...culture abrim with connoisseurs of the good life and nature's bounty. Charles de Gaulle, father of the Fifth Republic, used to cite France's prodigious number of cheeses -- 265 by his reckoning -- as an example of the land's lavish variety. Some benighted souls across the Channel may still believe God is an Englishman, but the French have never doubted that heaven is their home...