Word: establish
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...year-old UPN and the WB (co-owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) have avoided some of the network pitfalls but are yet to break into the black. They benefit from lower overhead costs and do not pay traditional compensation to stations. Moreover, they are striving to establish distinctive profiles in the crowded marketplace. UPN sees itself as a smarter throwback to the mass-audience network approach of the 1960s and '70s (among its newest shows: an updated version of The Love Boat), while the WB, the more successful of the two, has targeted teenage viewers with such...
...with the Mercedes near the tunnel entrance and thus played a role in the accident. Despite an intensive 10-month search for the Fiat, however, they have basically given up hope of finding it. The failure to identify the now legendary "second car" makes it impossible for investigators to establish its precise role--or definitively rule out the possibility that its driver was a photographer...
...this new 1,240-mile-range Daepodong -- which is literally twice the missile the Rodong was. Kim Jong Il, soon to be installed as president, has a nice firework for his inauguration. And North Korea's starving millions -- well, they get the satisfaction of seeing their nation trying to establish itself as a regional power. "Plainly," says Thompson, "this is one of the world's most loony nations...
...atypical behavior, and it bothers us." Their behavior has become such a public-safety issue that Yosemite's management has consulted attorneys about potential lawsuits and posted warning signs to help waive liability. Chow is in the middle of a study to radio-collar Yosemite's lions and establish their patterns of territoriality and feeding around humans. A primary question: Do the lions now see humans as part of the food chain...
...Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil has engendered an astonishing banality of explanation. A 1991 installment of television's Unsolved Mysteries focused on three "Diabolic Minds"--those of Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer, it seems, "had a stern father and was unable to establish a healthy relationship to his mother." Auschwitz resulted, you see, from the child Adolf's low self-esteem. A 1981 book published in Germany suggested in all seriousness that when Hitler was a youth, a billy goat took a bite out of his penis. Hence his subsequent career. The famous...