Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Evening News, meanwhile, is enjoying its ratings windfall. Last summer TV's former No. 1 newscast fell to an ignominious third place. Then the A.C. Nielsen Co. converted to its new people-meter system (in which participants punch buttons rather than fill out diaries to record their viewing), and the program jumped back up to No. 1. Rather, who on the air showed the stress of troubled times, appears reinvigorated and relaxed, and the show has an attractive new set and swelling theme music. In an effort to give the newscast a further boost, correspondents from 60 Minutes will start...
BEST TRACK RECORDS Racing toward the 1988 Olympics, Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson and American Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee dazzled at the Rome world track-and-field championships by winning their events. After 122 consecutive victories, U.S. Superstar Edwin Moses lost in the 400-meter hurdles...
Three freshmen had outstanding performances although none placed in the top three. John Mee and John Koenigsknecht both ran very well in the 400 meters, and Mauricio Velez took sixth in the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.6 seconds...
...Crimson women also turned in excellent performances as sophomores Tina Lount and Lise Vansen set a blistering pace in the 3000-meter run, and held on to finish second and third. Lount's time was 9:56.3, while Vansen finished...
Since 1958 yachtsmen around the world have informally agreed to compete every three or four years in the roughly 65-ft. boats called 12-meters (the meter designation refers to an abstruse architectural equation to which the craft must conform). But Fay proposed to vie for the Cup in a new 120-ft. K boat, a throwback to the majestic J boats used before World War II. In San Diego's light breezes, her soaring 160-ft. mast and other outsize features could give her a runaway advantage over existing defenders...