Word: channelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to do anything about it, the Six must go ahead." Spaak abandoned the position that the "Friendly Five" have defended ever since De Gaulle excluded the British from the Common Market early in 1963: that further progress toward unity is unthinkable without Britain. Across the Channel, the British, caught up in the start of a crucial election campaign, in which, typically, foreign affairs are hardly an issue, could not care less...
Burly Chicago Engineer Ted Erikson, 36, looked at the English Channel and said: "I can't afford to swim more than 30 hours. I have an important business appointment in Spain day after tomorrow." Then he waded in, hoping to become the second man to complete the 44-mile round trip to France and back. He took 12 hr. 35 min. to get halfway, was back to within eight miles of Dover when the channel turned against him, forced him to quit. But California Schoolgirl Leonore Modell, 14, doesn't have to worry about the boss...
...Monopoly. By 1952, when Lyndon Johnson was a U.S. Senator, television arrived, and the FCC gave KTBC the only very high frequency (VHF) channel in Austin. The station quickly picked up highly profitable contracts to carry programs from all three major networks-CBS, NBC and ABC. Unlike most single-channel cities, there is no "overlap" from stations in nearby cities-which means that the Johnsons own a television advertising monopoly in the whole Austin area...
From the CBS channel of view, there were just as many reasons to buy. The $11.2 million price is small change for a network that cleared $41 million last year. CBS is already massively committed to sports ventures-it has agreed to pay $31.8 million to the National Football League in the next two years. Owning a club in the world's biggest market also puts CBS in a stronger position to deal with the pay-TV problem, since the network will be able to control whether the Yankees are seen for free or for pay. In fact...
...price, is designed for data processing as well as for scientific problems. The 3600 will be used, for example, by West Germany to forecast weather, by Sears Roebuck to coordinate orders from 1,400 offices, and by Francis I. du Pont & Co. to receive and channel stock orders to specialists...