Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Based in Omaha, RFD-TV puts out a signal that can be picked up free by the 2 million U.S. households with satellite dishes. About 70% of those homes are in rural areas not wired for cable TV. Programming includes crop and livestock reports, country-music videos, a polka-music show and a smattering of old western movies. Patrick Gottsch, a former satellite-dish salesman who raised $4 million from investors to start RFD-TV, thinks the channel can attract enough advertising to turn a profit in its first year. Says investor Jim Harker of Omaha: "Nobody else is hitting...
...Polka Party...
...advertising in cycling is big business, especially if you look at the Tour de France. Each of the 25 stages of the race has its own sponsor. Each of the special jerseys--polka-dot for mountains, red for catch sprints, and yellow for race leader--has its own sponsor as well. And, of course, there are the "official" products of the Tour. There are official soaps, cameras, toothbrushes, cereals, bike pedals, and even an official motor scooter...
Howard Baker went to work one morning last week with a Christmas necktie that was pink with large blue polka dots. Such extraordinary flamboyance for the White House chief of staff made even the President take notice. "I'll give it to you if you'll wear it," said Baker, an offer that Reagan tactfully declined...
...done for. Further study is immediately precluded by the urge to put my book down and perform a jig or a polka. I raise my fist and scream, "Yes, Baby! That is the Coolest! You are the Best!" It is now only a matter of moments before my body is compelled by an invisible force to pigeon its head forward and back while walking like King Tut around my desk...