Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your graph vividly shows that 55% of the people prefer someone other than Mondale. The question for San Francisco delegates: Who has the best hope of beating Ronald Reagan? This is a country run by Nielsen ratings. Only Hart has the smile to compete with Reagan's on the evening news...
...anything, lethal injections, firing squads, and electrocutions will soon prove too boring for American audiences. After the novelty wears off, Nielsen ratings will begin to drop, and the state's "producers" will have to come up with a more captivating formula. The process might degenerate into a variant of "Wide World of Sports"--gladitorial contests, or maybe criminals fighting off wild animals, running hundred-yard dashes through machine-gun fire, attempting broad jumps across impossibly wide flaming pits--a veritable Olympics! Can one popularize state executions...
...constituents on the shop floor. Back in 1981, he stood in Longwy and pledged that the steel industry would be the "spearhead" of an industrial revival in France. Harsh reality has turned that promise to ashes, but his audience that day will not let him forget it. -By John Nielsen. Reported by Jordan Bonfante/Paris and Thomas A. Sanctm/Longwy
...losses straight. The second Oiler coach since Phillips, Chuck Studley, says bafflingly, "We're certainly still in a position to go either way." Since Studley has been in charge scarcely three weeks and is yet too new to boo, the Houston Astrodome patrons have been brutalizing Quarterback Gifford Nielsen. They prefer Oliver Luck, Nielsen's wonderfully named understudy. Few players on any football team are as highly regarded by the public as the back-up quarterback...
...budget may ultimately equal that fig ure. ABC, gambling that it will make up in ratings what it misses in ad dollars, schedules the film for sweeps week, when the three networks all go for broke in the ratings. The timing is perfect: Nov. 20 is not only a Nielsen trifecta, it is less than two weeks before the Pershing Us are due to be installed in West Germany. More controversy, more publicity. Is the timing a reflection of political intent as well as business expediency? The network firmly denies it. The National Review editorializes that ABC is making...