Word: launching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game's eye-popping graphics were an instant sensation; DKC not only became the best-selling game of 1994 but also ratcheted up pressure on the teams designing games for the new machine. "When we released Donkey Kong Country, we raised the bar on ourselves," says Lincoln. "The launch games on Nintendo 64 had to be that much better...
...partly because it's on far fewer stations than its network rivals). And it looks awfully lonely on Fox, considering that the network has no plans to start an evening newscast or any other national news show in the immediate future. But with Fox chief Rupert Murdoch vowing to launch a 24-hour cable news channel in the fall--and with a growing roster of network-level talent signing up to help him, led by former CNBC chief Roger Ailes--the concept of Fox News may no longer be an oxymoron...
...cable systems, Murdoch is offering cable operators $10 per subscriber if they'll pick up his channel--a not unprecedented strategy for new cable channels but an extraordinarily high figure. The gambit could boost viewership, but will be expensive for a venture that already will cost $100 million to launch...
...peek at the ground; because the building's spine is barely visible beneath, you feel you are hovering over Vegas in the Enterprise. Ascending three more levels, you find two things that no one before Stupak thought to put atop a skyscraper: a roller coaster and a space-launch reverse-bungee jump...
...democracy. With the ultra-enthusiasm and nationalism, first developed in fighting the Americans forty-five years ago, still lingering vividly in people's psychological mind-sets, it would make perfect sense for North Korea, if things really went that bad, to place its last bet on extreme methods and launch (or continue, to be exact) an aggressive assault at all costs. Since the country's crippled economy would let down its people and make them starve anyway, why not just mess up everything and see what happens...