Word: dials
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...Money, then, rather than politics, seems the driving force behind TVE's shift. The Zapatero government has, in the past few years, loosened the state's grasp on the airwaves, establishing for the first time an independent committee to run the national station and opening the dial to new, private stations - forcing TVE to compete as never before. Bullfighting may still attract a sizeable audience share (El Mundo puts the average at 16%), but these days TVE is more likely to save its bidding power for universally popular offerings like soccer matches...
Medication helps too. Antidepressants such as Prozac and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can help dial down the anxiety enough that patients can get started with ERP and, significantly, stay with it. When patients are children, practitioners are more reluctant to prescribe medication, but they are careful not to stay too long with ERP alone if it's not producing results. "The longer a child struggles with an illness, the more impact it's going to have," says Dr. John Piacentini, director of UCLA's child OCD clinic. Still, there are some people--kids and adults--whose...
...Message boards, a communication tool that predates the modern Internet and Web 1.0, were popular amongst geeks and early adopters as early as the late 1980s when users would use their modems to connect directly into dial-up message boards. In the mid- to late 90s, message boards became popular forums for users to discuss publicly traded stocks...
...spokesman Mark Siegel says connection speeds can vary widely depending on where and how the phone is used. Some info, like maps, stock quotes and weather updates can load in seconds. But if sites regularly crawl for a full minute before loading, memories of the old days of screeching dial-up may burst the iPhone bubble...
...listen to CNBC? Turn the dial a few notches to HGTV, and the housing boom has never been boomier. HGTV, the homespun redoubt of gardening and glue-gun projects that became a cable hit in the post-9/11 cocooning era, is now dominated by what it calls "Property Buzz" shows: series about buying and selling homes, which now make up six of the channel's 10 highest-rated shows. Shows like Secrets That Sell!, Designed to Sell, Bought & Sold, Get It Sold--notice a pattern?--offer a guide to tapping, Jed Clampett--style, the gusher of wealth sitting under...