Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Carson is in imminent danger of losing his title as late-night king. After soaring during the summer, Hall's ratings have slacked off a bit this fall. (The kids who constitute his main audience, explain show executives, have gone back to school.) Through it all, Tonight's ratings have remained relatively stable. "This race is not a sprint, it's a marathon," notes Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC Entertainment. "Whatever burns the brightest, fades the fastest...
...captured nearly that much already this year and seizures are generally ^ considered to represent only a small proportion of total supply, cocaine use could be several times that volume. But speculation about a far bigger than expected U.S. cocaine trade is only one of the theories that attempt to explain the recent huge seizures and their failure to increase prices. Some experts contend that the Colombian government's campaign against the drug lords has prompted them to move huge stockpiles out of that country and warehouse them in Mexico...
...made the disappearance especially alarming was that the quantity of tritium involved was sufficient, when combined with other ingredients, to build a small nuclear weapon. The U.S. Department of Energy, sensitive to the dangers of nuclear proliferation, last July halted U.S. sales of the gas and moved quickly to explain the losses and assure the public that the missing tritium had not ended up in the hands of a terrorist state...
Three separate investigations were launched to explain the discrepancies, but according to the inspector general's report, none of the probes seriously pursued the possibility of illegal diversion. Experts say that although the material was packed in sealed containers, it was sent by commercial carrier and did not receive the special safeguards used for shipments of plutonium or enriched uranium. Last week's report urged a fresh investigation and a tightening of procedures. Critics welcomed the recommendations but wondered why they came so late. Asked Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts, who released the report to the press: "Do we have...
...Koreans refuse to give up the practice. Nearly 82% of those surveyed oppose the save-the-dog campaign. Dogmeat is widely thought to have aphrodisiac powers, which may explain why it is prized by the older generation: 61% of those in their 40s admit to eating it, vs. 28% in their 20s. A health official said the government still discouraged eating dogmeat, but was planning no renewed crackdown...