Word: networks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the friends in thick gold chains and diamond pinky rings who placed wagers for a living did not faze him. Even now, Rose gives little outward sign that what happened has engendered self-doubt. The night before Giamatti's announcement, he was hawking autographed baseballs on Cable Value Network at $39.94 a throw and selling uniforms with his old No. 14 on them, the same number he used with his bookie...
BLACK IN WHITE AMERICA (ABC, Aug. 29, 10 p.m. EDT); THE R.A.C.E. (NBC, Sept. 5 and 6, 10 p.m. EDT). Two networks tackle the difficult subject of race relations. The ABC report is a series of profiles put together by the network's black producers and correspondents; NBC's live two-parter, with Bryant Gumbel as host, features a survey of viewers' attitudes on race...
...question in any such speculation about a partial or complete Hitler victory is whether peace would have brought any kind of stability. Could Hitler have established a continental network of satellite states under German domination, like that in Vichy France? And could such a network of satellites have lasted as long as the one created by Stalin after the war? It was partly wartime hysteria that led to the savagery of Nazi rule in the occupied lands, not only against the Jews but also against the Slavs, some of whom had originally welcomed the Wehrmacht for liberating them from Stalin...
...insuring themselves and their families; only 51% did so in 1984. Negotiators for Bell Atlantic want the company's employees, who currently pay a $150 deductible for nonhospital medical care, to take on a $150 deductible for hospitalization and an additional $200 deductible for any treatment outside a prescribed network of doctors and hospitals. "The whole idea is to make consumers thoughtful buyers and to stop rising health-care costs by asking them to put something at stake," says Bell Atlantic spokesman Kenneth Pitt...
...power under the newly elected President. Syria, which maintains about 25,000 troops in Lebanon, could improve its relations with the West by rescuing the hostages, but it wields little influence over the Shi'ites who hold them. Still, the U.S. believes Syria could use its intelligence network to locate the hostages and flex its military muscle to press for their release...