Word: majority
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...return, says Andrei Illarionov, director of the Institute of Economic Analysis, is the result of a "brilliant scheme," under way for months, by the tycoons to return to power the one man they believed could protect their interests. Men in the Chernomyrdin camp acknowledge that Berezovsky played a major role in encouraging the cautious former Prime Minister to come out publicly last summer with his plan to run for President in 2000. They confirm that the two met to discuss the future shortly before Yeltsin fired Kiriyenko and his whole Cabinet. Unlikely to be anything but lackluster on the stump...
...network has long been the topic of one of the TV industry's most popular guessing games: What will Barry do next? Since leaving Fox in 1992, Diller has dabbled in home shopping, proselytized for the digital revolution, failed to buy Paramount and, last February, succeeded in acquiring the majority of Universal's TV operations. Despite persistent rumors that he is in the market for a major network, such as CBS, Diller says he is more interested in fashioning his latest collection of TV properties--including the USA cable network and a group of 16 UHF stations--into yet another...
...they can benefit from network hits, in the form of increased ad revenue, without having to share in the costs; the networks instead pay the stations "compensation" as an inducement to carry their programming. This has put the networks in a squeeze, as license fees for hit shows and major sports events have soared (CBS just paid $4 billion for eight years of American Football Conference games--more than double the cost of the last contract) and advertising-rate increases have started to flatten. "The big-gauge networks are like Detroit in the 1970s," says Diller. "In the next three...
...darkest scenarios, however, envisions a powerful storm of Category 4 or higher making a direct hit on a major city like New Orleans or Miami. Surprisingly, hurricane researchers now consider one of the most vulnerable targets to be downtown New York City. They made the discovery by accident, in the course of a routine storm-evacuation study begun in 1990 by the Army Corps of Engineers, the kind of study done for every large community on the nation's hurricane-prone coasts. "We were all shocked," says Allan McDuffie, the Corps' study manager...
They discovered that the city has some unique and potentially lethal features. First, they realized that its major bridges, like the Verrazano Narrows and the George Washington, were so high they would experience the advance winds of an approaching hurricane several hours before winds of the same velocity were felt at ground level. These critical escape routes would have to be closed well before ground-level highways...