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...scramble to get more events onto the "our" side of the ledger has reached a frenzied peak. As the networks try to conserve a dwindling share of the TV audience, they are depending more and more on the drawing power of sports. "Sports is the one thing that comes to TV somewhat presold," says Larry Gerbrandt, senior analyst for Paul Kagan Associates. "If you're going to break in a new sitcom, you've got to launch a campaign of awareness. When you add a sports package, people already know what they are getting." The biggest events, moreover, can galvanize...
Aamoth, by experimentation, has discovered the basic principle of late-night Tasty life. Although the formal menu stretches across the back wall, during peak hours Smith and Drapeau serve only the Red Alert Special: double cheeseburgers, hot dogs, and Husky superburgers. "We used to try to make everything," says Michael Smith, "and we were going out of our minds...
...silver dollars, the 48-story CenTrust Tower became the pre-eminent landmark on Miami's skyline in the booming 1980s. The tower was visual testimony to the success of CenTrust Bank, which grew out of near failure seven years ago into the largest savings and loan in the Southeast (peak assets in 1989: $11 billion). But the building took on a gloomier symbolism last month when federal regulators seized the now insolvent thrift and ousted its top executives. As the Government conducts a bailout that could cost $2 billion, federal agencies are investigating David Paul, 50, the CenTrust chairman...
...rubbing raw against conspicuous wealth. The city is broken in half by a mountain range. The Zona Norte is dense, poor and desperately violent. The Zona Sul is laced with fancy apartments, fringed with world-class beaches, home to the rich and the tourists. In between, atop the granite peak of Corcovado, stands the symbol of Rio, a towering statue of Christ, his arms outstretched like a beleaguered mediator trying to keep two street fighters apart...
TRAVEL: In Rio at Carnival, crime and tourism peak...