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...dishes are becoming a viable alternative for viewers unhappy with cable. "There's no denying that a significant number of people have had it with the TV they're getting right now," says Eddy Hartenstein, president of DirecTV, the satellite-programming unit of GM Hughes Electronics. Enthuses satellite-TV pioneer Stanley Hubbard: "Once consumer expectations change, they never go back. Digital satellite is changing consumer expectations forever...
...infidel." In telling their story, he realizes, he is tracing a particularly American trajectory. The people before him were secure in their faith and in their right to shape and lead a new nation. Then a lot of things happened -- all meticulously noted in this narrative -- beginning with pioneer hardships, moving through wars and economic booms and busts, and winding up in the pleasant suburban comforts of Frazier's own Ohio childhood. "I think my parents' generation had little conscious idea what it believed," Frazier writes, and as a result the next cohort, his, "sort of pitched and yawed...
...When you're a progressive college like Bennington, and you're known for always being a pioneer, it's important to look and see if you're still pioneering," Diehl said...
Weiner, a pioneer in the development of the technique, hypothesized that a treatment for autoimmune diseases--in which the body's immune system attacks its own cells rather than foreign ones--might be found by using the well known fact that the body rarely rejects substances which are ingested orally...
Green, the Wells professor of political economy, said Warden was a pioneer in the field...