Word: news
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sources--Good News: Circulation (10/99), Cancer Research (10/99). Bad News: Radiology (11/99), American College of Gastroenterology meeting
...also combine words into bigger words and sentences, using the second trick of language, rules. Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that isn't news but when a man bites a dog, it is. Rules let us convey news by reshuffling words...
...hellacious bash of all time. For Dick Clark, however, it won't be quite as rocking. Clark, the former "American Bandstand" host who has virtually cornered the market on TV specials, including the annual 90-minute New Year's fest, is being downsized to make room for daylong ABC News coverage of the millennial turnover, anchored by Peter Jennings. President Clinton is expected to address the nation near midnight, potentially bumping other programming off the airwaves. Clark - who has been host of New Year's Eve specials for the past 27 years - is still scheduled to count down the traditional...
...time one of the 13.5 million subscribers to RealNetworks' RealJukebox downloads a song, the company creates a file that includes the user's musical preference, level of computer savvy and sophistication of computer equipment, as well as a catalog of CDs they've played on their ROM drive. That news set off alarm bells with web privacy advocates, who fear the data could be used to indict Net surfers who use pirated materials such as CDs (sometimes unwittingly). The reaction drew a quick response from RealNetworks, which announced Monday that it was releasing a free software download that would block...