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...refers to the percentage of total TV homes that are tuned in to a particular show. The "share" refers to the percentage of homes watching TV that are tuned to that show.) In the 1980-81 season, 28 network series achieved a 20 rating or better; last season only nine did. For many weeks last summer, not a single network show cracked the 20-rating level...
...SMALL, FAST-MOVING VEHICLE. Anticipating the collapse, the managers of suburban Chicago's relatively tiny Mathers Fund moved 62% of its assets into cash in the months before Oct. 19. Then they plunged back into the market during the last 45 minutes of Black Monday and kept buying for nine days. Since then, their purchases have surged in value, helping to boost the Mathers Fund from $154 million in assets just before the crash to $201 million now. Its increase of 27% during 1987 was the best performance by any U.S. growth fund...
Singh became the sixth foreign hostage to be set free in Lebanon this year, leaving 13 -- including nine Americans -- still in captivity. What his release means for the others, however, remains unclear. Singh and his three colleagues have always been regarded as a group apart. They were abducted by an organization calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, which is not known to have engaged in any other kidnapings. Most of the remaining hostages are believed to be held by factions of the pro-Iranian Shi'ite extremist organization known as Hizballah (Party of God), which has some...
could turn out to be for Dukakis what Russia was for Napoleon. He invested his vice-presidential choice there and nine days of his own precious time, but Bush still leads. The only consolation is that the Bentsen gambit has forced Bush to work hard in his home state; like Dukakis, the Vice President was there again last week. The Democrat's hope is that the oil recession will raise indignation high enough to smother Bush's appeals to Texans' macho instincts. Both sides have so much at stake that neither can be seen as backing away...
...most closely contested large state, and Dukakis cannot win without it. Though the state has gone Republican in eight of the past nine elections, it has an affection for change that the Democrat is fighting to exploit. Neither candidate has a natural claim on Californians' sentiments. That, and the fact that two of the state's baseball teams made the play-offs, is slowing voters' decision making...