Word: fox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, no one ever said starting a fourth network would be easy. The Fox Broadcasting Co., Rupert Murdoch's ambitious effort to compete with ABC, CBS and NBC, has weathered enough tin-pot tragedies in its brief life to fill a month on Another World. Joan Rivers' much publicized attempt to challenge Johnny Carson with her own talk show ended in ignominious cancellation after seven months on the air. Her eventual replacement, The Wilton North Report, failed even more abruptly and abysmally. Fox executives once hoped to have three nights of prime-time programming on the air by now; only...
...much for the bad news. The good news for Fox is that, a year after the launch of its first prime-time shows, it is still around. Ratings for its Sunday-night schedule have risen in recent weeks, and the network is attracting a high proportion of young-adult viewers, those most desirable to advertisers. The future is still cloudy, but Fox executives are looking ahead with dogged, if chastened, determination. "We've had to learn the hard way and the expensive way," says Programming Chief Garth Ancier. "But no one has ever got this far before...
...projected on the up screen, punches his pickle button as if setting an alarm for a wake-up call, then flies toward the target. The computer drops the bomb. "The other pilots would have thought I was crazy to let the computer decide," Hamilton admits. Like a fox. The aging warrior scored a near perfect bull's-eye each time and became this year...
...Backstroke 1. Gretchen Ebner, Boston University, 2:03.00*#; 2. Denise Sonntag, Penn State, 2:04.42; 3. Anna Martens, Columbia, 2:05.18; 4. Sheila Findley, HARVARD, 2:05.88; 6. Kaari Reierson, HARVARD, 2:08.41; 8. Fiona Fox, HARVARD...
...government is expected to introduce a law this spring requiring coats made from lynx, coyote, wolf, bobcat or fox to carry a label stating that the fur comes from "animals commonly caught in leg-hold traps." The British Fur Trade Association said it was not overly worried, since the law applies only to skins of wild animals and some 85% of all skins sold in Britain are farm- bred. But the B.F.T.A. complained that the move could hamper its research "into humane trapping methods...