Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three years, 20,000 buildings went up, all bigger and stronger than the 28,000 that had burned. San Francisco's assessed evaluation was half again as much as it had been. In 1915 the city sponsored the spectacular Panama-Pacific International Exposition. In only nine years, San Francisco had bounced all the way back...
From the moment in 1963 when CBS became the first network to expand its 15- minute nightly newscast to half an hour, visionaries there and at rivals NBC and ABC began to talk of the logical next step: a full hour of news. A quarter-century later, they are still just talking. But upstart Cable News Network, the 24-hour information service that began in 1980 and reaches 52 million households, has taken that step. Last week CNN launched The World Today, a 60-minute newscast (airtime: 6 to 7 p.m. EST) that in much of the U.S. competes head...
...finally bumped for lack of time. CNN uses the hour to do a few stories fully rather than pepper the viewer with here-and-gone 30-second items, but last week's feature pieces often seemed simply long, not deep. Moreover, the hour seemed deliberately broken into two repetitive half-hour shows, covering much the same topics in slightly different fashion...
When companies do buy new gear, they are rapidly downsizing, junking their mainframes in favor of smaller, more flexible workstations, made by companies like Sun Microsystems. Because of this shift, mainframe sales are expanding only about 5% annually, less than half the rate of a few years ago. Says Rod Canion, president of Houston-based Compaq: "The rules are changing, and it's very difficult for the big-computer makers to accept." At the other end of the spectrum, some PC makers are getting hit with a different problem: a glut of machines. Says Michael Dell, who heads an Austin...
...course in ethics, and the incoming class is treated with unaccustomed humanity. "Demanding but not demeaning" is the cadre's new motto. Only the school prayer goes on as before: "Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half truth when the whole...