Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Youth Must Be Served Award. To Quayle, for interjecting, "I can hear you O.K.," after Bentsen had complained to Jon Margolis that he could not hear a question...
This penny-pinching approach could lead to what producer Aaron Spelling calls "bottled shows." "We always want to see someone come driving up to a house and going to the front door," says Spelling. "Now you will hear the car pulling up, the door slamming, and see someone coming into the house. I hate to see that happen." Some shows, like CBS's Wiseguy, are being shot in Canada to save money. Others are being jointly produced with foreign companies to spread the costs...
...before the house of cards collapses," says Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates. "On any given night, with any given show, they have the ability to attract a predominant share of the TV audience." Alan Gottesman, media analyst at Paine Webber, asserts, "The next thing you will hear will be the turning of the worm. There is an operating cycle of about two years in this business. Each network has gone through a semicataclysmic change in management. If you add two years to that, you come to the bottom of the cycle. This is the bottom...
Many voters insist that they are not influenced by campaign ads. But it is easy to hear echoes of recent commercials on a walk down Homewood Avenue -- a few blocks from the Heitgers' -- in this neighborhood of front porches, garage sales and $40,000 homes. "I'm not sure about Dukakis," said Steven Davis, a hospital security guard. "I like his ideas about better health care, but he also scares me a little about defense." Carl Bauer, a 72-year-old retiree, was scathingly critical of Bush's performance in the first debate, but will probably vote for him anyway...
...exchange, Jack Keller, 45, has moved his family back to Las Vegas and temporarily resumed his previous career as a professional poker player. "If the market picks up, I'll go back," says Keller. "But very few people are making money down at the exchange, from what I hear. I just hear moaning and groaning...