Word: network
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...alliance between Northwest and Continental, announced last week, will probably improve the ride for the two companies more than for their passengers. In the unorthodox agreement, Northwest will buy 14% of Continental's common shares--but 51% of the company's voting shares--effectively creating a domestic and international network to compete with megacarriers like United and American. The Continental shares are being sold by Air Partners, controlled by investor David Bonderman. Continental was operating on a wing and prayer five years ago when Air Partners and Air Canada (which since sold its shares) each invested about $50 million...
...stop past a small group of racers, officials and assorted stragglers. Within inner circles, Haakonsen, 23, is considered the Michael Jordan of snowboarding, and Mount Baker possibly the sport's most respected event. But when Haakonsen finishes, there are no corporate sponsorships, no teams, no coaches, no flags, no network TV. A few ragged kids in wet gear cheer the best rider in the world as he slips off, back to the chair lift. The Norwegian packs up his third Mount Baker trophy (a golden roll of duct tape) and prepares to head up to Vancouver, B.C., to consult...
...Olympic-qualifying status to the F.I.S., organizer of skiing's World Cup circuit, nearly sparked violence at some European events. Says Fawcett: "The F.I.S. didn't want anything to do with us until they realized it was going to be an Olympic event and that there would be [TV] network interest and a great deal of money." Other riders felt the F.I.S. had little understanding of snowboarding's anti-Establishment culture. The scuttlebutt too was that the F.I.S. circuit is second rate...
Committee member Bryan E. McKrell '98 said these prices came from Mike Geremia of National Concerts Network, the council's booking agent for the past several years...
...media has been guilty of egregious failures of perspective. The grotesque frenzies surrounding the O.J. Simpson trial, the nanny trial or the birth of septuplets in Iowa seem entirely out of proportion to their actual significance. I believe there is a special circle in hell reserved for any television network that ever opened a broadcast with a story about Tonya Harding. And I detest local news stations that never once offer a decent, thoughtful story about education, but are always on the scene the moment someone falls down a manhole or gets an ear bitten...