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Like all good TV dramas, this one starts with an exciting precredit sequence. The time is early 1979, and the network wars have reached a frenzied peak. Sitcoms like Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley are riding high in the Nielsens. Blockbuster mini-series are vying to reproduce the huge audiences that tuned in for Roots. Star programmer Fred Silverman, the Man with the Golden Gut, is ready to try everything from Gary Coleman to Supertrain in his quest to lift NBC out of the prime-time ratings cellar...
...took a look, and put away the dream for another year. "It has been a very long season," he explained. "I am very tired." Not as tired as his ^ competitors, who continue to battle among themselves for the distinction of being second best, a full 2 in. off the peak...
...emergence of China and South Korea as athletic powers mirrors their rise as international powers. All you had to do to glimpse South Korea's changed status was take a peak behind Bryant Gumbel on NBC. Seoul is as modern as New York...
...have sold off more stocks than they have bought during 16 of the past 17 years, while institutions have been net buyers. Sindlinger & Co., a research firm, estimates that only 3.7% of all U.S. stock-owning households have immediate plans to buy more shares, down from 35% near the peak of last year's bull market...
Women swimmers usually peak at age 15 to 17, and the East Germans are nearly geriatric by that standard. One of the squad's golden oldies, Kristin Otto, 22, is still a formidable all-around sprinter. But in order to take the gold in the 100-meter freestyle event, she may have to better her world-record 54.73-second time, which has stood, amazingly, since 1986. Says Otto: "I know I haven't reached my limits...