Word: network
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to help students find jobs that aren't traditionally offered during the winter recruiting season, the Harvard Public Service Network (HPSN) and Office of Career Services (OCS) sponsored the first-ever "Professions in the Public Spirit" seminar at Phillips Brooks House on Saturday morning...
Where is all this dumb money? Much of it is in Internet stocks, most of which command stratospheric prices despite their lack of profits and their dubious prospects. In a seminal event for these stocks' valuations, high-flying portal company Lycos last week agreed to merge with USA Networks, a real company (Home Shopping Network; Ticketmaster) with $1.5 billion in annual revenue. Lycos shares plunged 31% in two days as investors reflected on Lycos' value inside a company that must--gasp--post rising profits to boost its share price...
...turned out, my digital dilemma was moot. Fox chose not to broadcast the game in HDTV after all. Apparently the network is waiting for a bigger event, like a live Mars landing or the final episode of The Simpsons...
Having shot to the top of the commentariat, Turley and the other upstart impeachment specialists may now come tumbling down, casualties of the scandal's end. Not just pundits but also entire cable-news networks would seem to need new identities. Yet the three networks that lashed themselves tightest to the mast of this story--CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel--won't let it go gently. "It's been a very good 12 months for us," says Erik Sorenson, vice president and general manager of MSNBC, perhaps the most Monicamaniacal of all. Sorenson says the network has "already started...
...publicity business," notes PMK partner PAT KINGSLEY (the third PMK pooh-bah: LOIS SMITH). But by schmoozing with its new friends in the entertainment biz, says Dart, McCann-Erickson will be able to "tip off its clients to trends that are emerging"--in effect, a savvy little spy network at the heart of our cultural Zeitgeist. Synergy, baby, synergy...