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Janet Clark, at number five, was the only loser in singles, as she fell victim to a 5-4 tiebreaker in the second set and lost her match...
Janet Clark, at number five, was the only loser in singles, as she fell victim to a 5-4 tiebreaker in the second set and lost her match...
...reasoning: basic home-phone service is a money loser and is made possible mainly by high revenues from its other services-long-distance tolls, special private lines, commercial phone equipment and fancy Design Line telephones that AT&T introduced two years ago. If part of that business is lost to competitors, rates to home subscribers will have to go up. A T & T claims it subsidized home service to the tune of $4.6 billion last year...
...affect the financial well-being of the networks. The bigger the audience for any show, the fatter the advertising revenues that flow into the network: a winner can charge up to $140,000 a minute for commercials, enough to pay the entire cost of a 30-minute show; a loser may get only $90,000. The difference of one Nielsen rating point for a season, reflected in advertising rates, can mean the loss or gain of $15 million in one year...
...that vast audience, most of the researchers conclude that Kennedy gained the most, although not necessarily on the merits of his arguments. Radio listeners, for example, sometimes rated Nixon as having done better. On TV, Kennedy was generally seen as the clear winner of the first debate, a narrow loser of the third, while the other two meetings were tossups. In the Gallup poll, Kennedy picked up three percentage points after the debates and Nixon one, as the number of undecided voters declined. The net effect was to pull Kennedy from one point behind Nixon to one point ahead. Since...