Word: channelized
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Cable TV ads are, so far, usually just the same frenetic 30-second spots seen on the mainline channels. Cable News Network, Ted Turner's 24-hour all-news channel from Atlanta, carries the standard commercials for Quaker Oats, Holiday Inns and others...
...sailing orders are sealed. Only the skipper. Commander Michael Murtagh, 40, and his executive officer, Lieut. Commander Andy Anderson, 33, know where Dauntless is headed. On this patrol, Murtagh's destination is the 135-mile-wide Yucatan Channel off Mexico's southeast coast. That is where, the captain has been told, he has the best opportunity to intercept a large shipment of U.S.-bound marijuana. Once past the channel, a smuggler has an excellent chance of reaching Florida or Louisiana, whose labyrinthine coastal waterways provide concealment for off-loading the precious cargo into smaller, speedier boats known...
...Channel 7 will broadcast the game live at 7:30 p.m.; WBZ 10:30 a.m., will also carry the game live...
...this will make for a great series, an NHL showcase. Unfortunately, the NHL has no network television contract to showcase the series--too many Colorado-Washington games took care of that long ago. So, the league will peddle the games to independent stations (like Boston's channel 38), and daring network affiliates that are willing to forfeit a sitcom or two to show this interborough fracas...
...agreed that pre-collegiate public school seniors, for example, do at least as well on tests as Catholic school seniors. While public and private college-bound programs may yield comparable results, Coleman insists that the school systems on the whole are not equal, if only because public schools channel so many students into nonacademic programs. In that practice and others, public schools can profit by private school experience. Said Columbia University Education Professor Diane Ravitch: "Coleman suggests a model in which the climate of learning is conditioned by good behavior and effective discipline. There are powerful lessons to be learned...