Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first week of the 1993-94 season, 75% of all TV sets in use were tuned to one of the Big Four networks--NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. By last fall, that figure was down to 65%. During last month's premiere week, the network share took another startling drop--to 61% of the viewing audience. The measure of success has fallen accordingly: Dharma & Greg is considered a "hit" this season with a rating of 10.5 last week; 10 years ago it would have been 57th out of 68 shows and a target for quick cancellation...
...photos was one William P. Youngworth III, a 38-year-old ex-con and antiques dealer who is on his way to jail again on a car-theft conviction. Officials from the Gardner asked to see the photos for themselves and demanded that the Herald and ABC News drop their request for exclusive rights to report on the museum's analysis. At week's end the drama had degenerated to a squabble among lawyers for all parties...
DIED. NOBUO FUJITA, 85, the only Japanese pilot to drop a bomb on the U.S. mainland during World War II; in Tsuchiura. In 1942 Fujita embarked on a top-secret mission to create a huge conflagration in southern Oregon by firebombing its forests. Flying a tiny pontoon plane, he failed miserably, sparking only a minor brushfire...
...drop in, drop out program," Meranus said...
CUERPETINO, Ca: Ah, the loneliness of command. Vacationing on a distant Hawaiian isle, Steve Jobs ? interim Apple CEO ? will mull over suggestions that he drop the "interim" from his title. "I'm trying to get away for a week, to walk on the beach and chill out and think about things," Jobs told reporters Thursday after hinting that he "might" assume permanent leadership of the struggling computer firm he co-founded in his parents' garage...