Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holy white light when he gave the green light to ID4; he was thinking grosses. Michael Sullivan of UPN didn't have religion in mind when he put four sci-fi shows on his network; he was thinking demographics. "Sci-fi has traditionally been a cult item, and 20 years ago, networks had to draw a mass audience. Now with the networks' share of audience diminishing, that core audience becomes more significant," he says. And NBC's Warren Littlefield was not looking for metaphors when he programmed an entire Saturday evening of fall shows with spooky themes. He was listening...
After Ford decided to reduce the FAS subsidy to PBHA by annual increments of $5,000, phasing it out entirely by 1973, PBHA requested line-item status on the FAS budget and a permanent subsidy from the Faculty...
...been hard for KATHIE LEE GIFFORD to stay perky recently. Having recovered from the embarrassing disclosure that her Wal-Mart clothing line was made in Honduran sweatshops, she was told that one item, a faux-antique blouse, was manufactured in a New York City plant where workers were grossly underpaid. Gifford didn't hesitate. She dispatched her husband, TV sports presenter Frank, to hand out envelopes containing $300 each to some of the workers--accompanied by a publicist, natch...
Iraq is finally cooperating well enough with United Nations monitoring to be allowed to sell oil for food and medicine. Hearing that news, I couldn't help wondering whether I should have been able to predict some movement toward flexibility in Baghdad when I noticed an Associated Press item last March that began, "Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has ordered an end to the practice of cutting off the ears of army deserters and draft dodgers...
...were one of those anonymous State Department analysts we're always reading about, maybe I would have recognized that item from Iraq last March as the first sign of flexibility in Saddam Hussein...