Word: leans
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...hour late, but the crowd gathered in the makeshift studio at MTV's Times Square headquarters doesn't seem to mind. Twenty-some twenty-somethings are sitting around the edges of the room when the spiky-haired British R&B star finally enters, causing more than one girl to lean forward. Sean is miked and seated in front of an MTV logo reminiscent of the Taj Mahal. The camera rolls, and the interview begins. Sean talks about being a kid and starting a band in England with his cousin, recording their first demo tape in his bedroom and being swooned...
While Dershowitz said that the composition of the committee will probably make it lean towards more risk-averse recommendations, Dzambukira said he was confident that the committee will recommend changing the current system...
...first named to the CPB board by President Clinton, says that has been exactly his intention. "We needed balance for the sake of public broadcasting," he says, "so that Republicans and conservatives would take it more seriously." His critics counter that he just wants to pressure it to lean right. Says Jeff Chester, executive director of the liberal Center for Digital Democracy: "The idea that a schedule filled with the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Antiques Roadshow, children's programming and British mystery classics is a shrill liberal bastion is absurd...
...belt tightening has come as no surprise to industry watchers. Capital Cities, a successful owner of magazines, newspapers and broadcasting stations, is known for running lean, and extremely profitable, operations. ABC, meanwhile, has been floundering financially. As NBC last week celebrated its first victory ever in Nielsen's cumulative annual prime-time ratings, ABC chalked up a last-place place finish for the second year in a row. Capital Cities/ABC executives told stockholders three weeks ago that the network may post a net loss this year for the first time since 1971. Nor is the situation likely to improve quickly...
...whatnot. With the exception of a rough period about three years ago, Cuba's merchants, whose immediate market numbers but a scant 1,500 citizens, have kept the News in the black with their advertising (full page, $50; half, $25; quarter, $12.50; want ad, $2). And even during that lean spot, when word got around that the paper might go under, advertisers who could ill afford it simply dug deeper and set things right...