Word: dial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...programming promises to be well produced and occasionally diverting, in an info-junk food sort of way. But quality, or lack of it, may have little to do with the new venture's fate. With dozens of channels fighting for a limited amount of space on the cable dial, a fuzzily conceived network like Eye on People lacks the gotta-have-it factor. Indeed, only about 2 million cable homes will get it initially. That figure could grow to 10 million by year's end, if the network's optimistic projections hold true. But even at that, the number...
...trying to buy its way onto the dial, as channels like Fox News and Animal Planet (from the creators of the Discovery Channel) have done by offering money to cable systems in return for carrying them. Yet CBS does have some potential clout to wield. It could hold up permission for cable systems to retransmit local CBS stations unless they agree to pick up Eye on People--a tactic the other broadcast networks have used in order to get wider distribution for their start-up cable ventures...
Even so, CBS executives project that the channel won't break even for six years. If it can hang on that long, digital technology--or a new generation of direct-broadcast satellites--is expected to increase capacity so much that getting space on the dial will no longer be a problem. The goal for CBS, like its network competitors, in this virtually unlimited marketplace is to accumulate shelf space--and hope that Eye on People is one product shoppers won't pass...
...about the Oklahoma City bombing and warned the Federal Government. Howe, a former honor student at Tulsa Metro Christian Academy, fell in with Tulsa's Skinhead set. Before long she found herself at the side of Dennis Mahon, leader of White Aryan Resistance and the purveyor of Tulsa's Dial-a-Racist phone line. Mahon, 46, who until recently kept his Airstream trailer at Elohim, claims that his first contact with Howe was a letter she sent him in the spring of 1993. "She wrote that she was 23, pure Aryan, considered beautiful and wanted to fight for her race...
...much--or as little--detail as you desire. The answers aren't just yes or no; you can express gradations of preference by using your mouse to slide a dial to the left or right--I like antilock brakes this much. You can revise your answers as you go along. At last the program reduces the field to a small number of appropriate cars. Then you click on a page devoted to each lucky car, where you find a buying guide, customer reviews and perhaps a sales offer from the company that made...