Word: dependability
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...looming writers' strike hits this summer, some of the cheap reality shows likely to fill the airtime could stay on after the strike ends, especially if Survivor demonstrates the genre's viability. That may also depend on the continued success of a wave of just-debuted knock-off reality shows that began last week (see boxes)--not unlike the game shows that, exactly this time last year, assumed it would be easy to mimic Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Say, what time is Winning Lines on anyway...
...know that eating home-cooked meals all the time is not terribly practical. But with a little planning and some self-awareness, you can work around those occasional slips. Salt is, after all, essential to life. The trick is to adopt an overall pattern of healthy living and not depend on any one thing to make up for bad habits...
Harvard's ability to carry its momentum from beating Dartmouth through the course of this season will depend largely on its health and what its youth can learn...
...reason to hope that enough competition was present in the system to maintain pressure for reasonable fares and better service. But the looming mergers promise bad news for the little guys as well, says Gritta. The market gargantuans, he says, will smother smaller carriers, like Jet Blue, whose businesses depend on finding economical niches in crowded airports...
...replacing parents as the modern household's repair experts. New surveys show that the technological generation gap between adults who grew up with simpler appliances and the e-generation of computer-game-literate kids has grown to the point where three out of four parents admit that they depend on their children to program new phones and stop VCR clocks from blinking...