Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rather than pressure Shamir directly, Bush's top advisers seem content to let the intifadeh do it for them. "We can let the uprising proceed, let the pressures continue to work on public opinion in Israel and the United States," explains a senior Bush adviser, "and try to channel those pressures in constructive directions." So for the time being, the Administration feels that the best policy is one of patient incrementalism. "The President does not believe conditions now exist for making peace, but he would like to see those conditions fostered, step by step," said the U.S. official. "Time...
...programming may not be as irreverent (some might say tasteless) as its promotional ads, but the Consumer News & Business Channel, a cable service that will be launched next week by NBC, is causing plenty of stir. The channel will compete directly with cable's chief business-news outlet, the Financial News Network (FNN). But some in the cable industry believe that CNBC has a much bigger rival in its sights: Ted Turner's cable news giant...
CNBC officials deny that they are developing a general-news channel to challenge CNN. "It will be confined to business and consumer news," says CNBC President Michael Eskridge, who oversaw NBC's Summer Olympics coverage last year. "We think that's an area that is underserved." CNBC's contracts with cable systems, he points out, stipulate that the network must stay within its business-news charter; if it expands, the systems can drop...
There does not appear to be any significantopposition to this year's meeting. Whileacknowledging that talking to the Corporation forone hour a year was not an adequate channel forstudent input into University governance, councilmembers said this spring's meeting could still behelpful...
...hadn't played basketball, what would have happened?' " he says. "Ninety percent of the people I grew up with are dead or in jail, and I would have been the same way. Without basketball, I wouldn't have had an outlet." The challenge is to help more student athletes channel their talents into usable skills rather than into the dead end of broken dreams...