Word: mainstream
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Furthermore, I question Upton's bizarre assertion that "in New York...the promise of integration has been fulfilled a bit better," evidenced, apparently, by the prominence of black artists in the playlists of mainstream stations. A quick glance at census statistics--African-Americans make up 26 percent of metropolitan New York's population, compared to 7 percent of greater Boston's (see govinfo.library.orst.edu)--indicates that New York stations are after market share, not racial harmony. MAX HIRSH...
...Oval Office two-termer, DLC thinking has become the party's de facto theology, and its annual conference has developed into a station of the Democratic cross -- the place where, two years out from election day, all but the most liberal candidates must come to prove their mainstream appeal...
...Justice Department witness. Warren-Boulton offered what may well become the feds' counter-spin: That Microsoft's exclusive contracts and illegal monopoly leverage drove its bruised browser rivals into the arms of AOL. Meanwhile, a more cultural argument was being made on bulletin boards across the Internet -- that the mainstream will always appropriate successful companies that operate on the fringe. "The battle is over," wrote one AOL-phile. "AOL wins...
...Medical Center's Fact Sheets on Alternative Medicine at cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/rosenthal/factsheets.html the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at altmed.od.nih.gov/nccam/ and the University of Texas Center for Alternative Medicine Research at sph.uth.tmc.edu/utcam/default.htm Finally, the surest sign that alternative medicine has gone mainstream: Herbal Remedies for Dummies (IDG Books; $20) is just hitting the stores...
Though that scene isn't with us yet, it's feeling eerily close. Standards for room-to-room PC networking and the conversant appliance continue to creep toward the mainstream (and each other). Madison Avenue's trumpets blare for bold (and still overpriced) idiot-box breakthroughs like high-definition television (HDTV) and $15,000 gas-plasma sets that cling to the wall like framed art. Still, 1998 was a year for improvements...