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Almost from the start, however, legal troubles tangled NBC's corporate history. In 1931 antitrust issues forced RCA to split from General Electric; the orphaned company moved into new digs in New York City's Rockefeller Center (which remains its headquarters to this day). Despite a spirited rivalry with fellow broadcasting giant CBS in the golden age of radio, NBC ruled the dial - a supremacy that sparked further antitrust investigations from the newly created Federal Communications Commission. In 1939 the FCC ordered RCA to spin off NBC entirely; RCA, in a successful effort to avoid this outcome, instead sold...
Kuperman, her fellow student choreographer, expressed a similar sentiment: “I think that certain dancers here are at a comparable level to those dancing at a conservatory, so it’s impressive to see that commitment to their arts.” Kuperman notes that this commitment is especially remarkable in light of students’ need to handle a heavy academic workload in addition to their extracurricular involvement in dance...
Johnstone and Coffman were awarded the grand prize of a $100 gift card at b.good. Oh, and eternal glory may be part of the deal also. But the winners were happy to share the credit with their fellow castmates. “That’s my dog India in the picture,” Johnstone said in his moving acceptance speech...
...pair came storming back in later bouts. Sun posted two resounding 5-0 sweeps to assist the Crimson to a comfortable victory in the epee. Fellow freshman epee Nadia Eldeib also did her part, overpowering her opposition in a lopsided matchup to end the meet...
...turnaround strategies just isn't there. Worse, it isn't even that clear what makes a turnaround a turnaround. "There's no agreement on how bad a school has to be in order to qualify," says Andy Smarick, a former deputy assistant education secretary who is a visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education-reform think tank. "There's no agreement on how long it has to sustain that level of excellence. There's no agreement on whether it means the entire population of students or just certain subgroups. Does it mean having a school go from...