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Backed by the existing infrastructure and marketing savvy of the N.B.A., the W.N.B.A. has exceeded all expectations midway through its two-month inaugural season, averaging 8,766 in attendance, well above its projection of 4,500 a game, and occasionally eclipsing Major League Soccer and P.G.A. golf in the television ratings. W.N.B.A. games are televised nationally over NBC (weekends), ESPN (weekdays) and Lifetime (Fridays). Viewers watching the N.B.A. playoffs in June were besieged with the W.N.B.A. slogan, "We Got Next." The phrase is commonly used on playgrounds to reserve the next game, but in light of the early success...
...which provided some financial figures and a rare look at church businesses), TIME has been able to quantify the church's extraordinary financial vibrancy. Its current assets total a minimum of $30 billion. If it were a corporation, its estimated $5.9 billion in annual gross income would place it midway through the FORTUNE 500, a little below Union Carbide and the Paine Webber Group but bigger than Nike and the Gap. And as long as corporate rankings are being bandied about, the church would make any list of the most admired: for straight dealing, company spirit, contributions to charity (even...
...celebrate its 350th anniversary, the University--with much pomp and grandeur--raised $350 million. Eleven years later, at the midway point of its $2.1 billion capital campaign, Harvard has raised more that $350 million dollars in a single year...
Wilde largely precipitated his own tragedy, when he rashly brought a libel suit against the father of his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, for publicly calling him a sodomite. Wilde dropped the suit midway through the trial, but the damage was done: charges were soon brought against him for violating public morality. After one hung jury, he was convicted and sent to jail for two years...
...equation the sudden departure midway through the season of Harvard's backup netminder, sophomore Peter Zakowich, which left Prestifilippo alone with sole responsibility for the Harvard net, starting in all but one of Harvard's 32 contests...