Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result was that many environmental activists were left without a proper outlet for their concerns...
Since then two developments have fostered the spread of cultism. One is the end of communism. Whatever the disasters of Marxism, at least it provided an outlet for utopian longings. Now that universalist impulses have one less way to expend themselves, religious enthusiasms of whatever character take on a fresh appeal. And even Russia, with a rich tradition of fevered spirituality and the new upheavals of capitalism, is dealing with modern cults...
Loker's fast-food dilemma goes beyond the perfect burger, however. Due to its proximity to Harvard Square, a new nationally known fast food outlet at Loker might create conflict between the University and community activists who are fighting to keep the Square chain-free...
...shown its sketch to the witnesses at the Ryder outlet in Junction City, Kansas, who still claim to have seen McVeigh with an unknown second man on the day the bomb truck was rented. Nor apparently has the FBI shown the Jacques sketch to folks around Nichols' home in Herington, Kansas. There, Barbara Whittenberg remembers a Ryder truck pulling up in front of her Santa Fe Trail Diner a day or so before the bombing. "There was three gentlemen that came in and sat down and ordered coffee," she says. One, she says, was Nichols, another, McVeigh. "The one question...
...synergy is the driving force behind media conglomerates, somebody at Viacom Inc. missed a meeting. When the company's MTV and VH-1 video channels recently sought an online-CD outlet, they passed over corporate cousin Blockbuster Entertainment, the video- and record-store Goliath, in favor of a more popular rival, N2K's Music Boulevard. MTV will also contribute news to the sites and promote them over the airwaves. With the $24 million-a-year online-music market expected to grow to $1 billion by 2000, MTV's abandonment is more bad news for the retail chain. Blockbuster has enough...