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...study found significant variations in the amount of violence across the dial. On network stations, 44% of the shows contained at least some violence, vs. 59% on basic cable and 85% on premium channels like hbo and Showtime. Yet it was the broadcast networks that squawked the loudest. "Someone would have to have a lobotomy to believe that 44% of the programs on network television are violent," exclaims Don Ohlmeyer, NBC West Coast president. (Actually, the study referred to network stations, meaning that syndicated shows like Hard Copy were also included.) "Since I've been here, I can't think...
...different (not entirely dissimilar from Sun Microsystems today). Its idiosyncrasies created a revolution. The benefit of its attitude started with the Apple II, which defined the fundamental elements of a personal computer: hard drive, monitor, key board. Then Apple invented Macintosh, and desktop publishing. The company was a premium maker of first-class personal computers. When Apple succeeded, it made lots of money but saw its market share shrink drastically. Eventually the shrinkage caught up with it, and profits dwindled...
...Apple must take drastic measures to survive. The smaller Apple's market share gets, and it's now at about 10 percent, the less appeal it has to software developers." As a result, Apple is finding it increasingly difficult to keep up in a market that places a high premium on new software applications. Jackson concludes: "That doesn't mean that the Mac operating system will disappear, but it may mean that the Apple company will disappear." No new details emerged from Apple's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, says Jackson, "but it is clear that shareholders are restless...
...ambivalence. "Each of these issues--I just want to be clear about this. This is not a Utopian society that everybody can be everything to all people and paid for by somebody else. We have fiduciary responsibilities to our employers to the tune of about $1.5 billion worth of premiums paid to us every year to manage their health-care premium dollars responsibly . because in general, insurance and payers and physicians have been ineffective in holding that fiduciary responsibility...
Health Net collects premium dollars from employers and reserves money for its own profit, salaries, bonuses, marketing and administrative costs, as well as for two special reserve pools to pay for AIDS care and all transplants, including bone-marrow transplants. Last year alone it collected over $2 billion in monthly payments from 1.2 million subscribers...