Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Newly elected leaders said the group's activities will expand in the coming year. "A complaint this year was that there weren't enough participation opportunities available" Guinoo said in his acceptance speech. "We hope to change that...
...Slow Dancing with the Moon is an ideal reminder of Parton's status as a premier singer-songwriter. Her plaints, like I Will Always Love You (a recent chart tyrant for Whitney Houston), expand the reach of country music to both coasts and most places in between. But Parton is her own best interpreter. Country guitar picker Chet Atkins gives her this impish praise: "She has more talent than I've got in my little finger...
...what sort of traffic it bears will depend to a large extent on consumers. As the system unfolds, the companies supplying hardware and programming will be watching to see which services early users favor. If they watch a lot of news, documentaries and special- interest programming, those offerings will expand. If video on demand is a huge money-maker, that is what will grow. If video bulletin boards - or teleconferencing, or interactive Yellow Pages, or electronic town meetings - are hot, those services too will thrive and spread...
Phillies owner Giles, who heads the TV committee, has a plan to make expanded play-offs and interleague play irresistible to the networks. The play-off games would be played simultaneously and, to boost ratings, aired only on a regional basis. (Guess what, fans, that means you would be unable to watch three-quarters of the play-offs.) Adding allure to the regular-season TV package might be Monday-night interleague games. And the last item on Giles' agenda: "If we go to three divisions," he said, "we'll have to expand to 30 teams...
...rich greedmongers who own professional baseball teams make a huge profit on these glorified, minor league franchises, even as they destroy the major leagues. It's easier for baseball to expand--and feel good about itself--than to look inward and face its real problems...