Word: launching
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...News president plans to launch a 24-hour news channel early in 1997 that its president, Roone Arledge, today claimed would be an alternative, rather than a challenger, to CNN. "It will be very difficult for ABC to put a dent in CNN's penetration because CNN has been around for so long," says senior media writer Richard Zoglin. "The fact that they have more than 200 affiliate stations will give them a leg up with local coverage, but the head start that Turner has may be insurmountable." ABC will seek to distribute the all-news programming using both cable...
...revenues. The U.S. buys nearly half of Nigerian oil exports; even though this amounts to less than 10 percent of overall American oil imports. Instead of taking the obvious and most effective measure of an oil embargo on Nigeria, the U.S. and other world governments have preferred to launch futile paper arrows at the Nigerian government through "quiet diplomacy...
...There was a sense that politics had migrated into the popular culture," said Kennedy, who left his job at the New York District Attorney's Office to launch the political journal...
...when the U.S. was the sole possessor of atomic weapons and the U.N. Charter was being written. All the peace-loving countries would band together, the theory went, with the five permanent members of the Security Council in the lead. They would punish any nation that dared launch an aggressive war. That scenario was played out in Korea, but never thereafter until the Gulf War, which followed the breakup of the U.S.S.R...
Catalog operators, for their part, are facing not just slack demand but also the rising costs of paper and postage this year. L.L. Bean, which experienced a $25 million jump in such expenses, will launch television commercials for the first time in its 83-year history this Christmas to help promote its 800 number. Rival catalog giant Lands' End plans to resist the industry price-cutting trend by holding its prices level with those of last year and offering extras such as free gift boxes and monograms. Says Lands' End president Michael Smith: "If you're selling computers or electronics...