Word: primed
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...decade the group reunited, "after their rejuvenating years of personal re-definition" (their website's words). Though they kept recording new material, they were essentially an oldies act, appearing with other antique pop-folkies like the Highwaymen and the Brothers Four at concerts that PBS liked to air in prime time during every pledge week. Travers, by then on her fourth husband, had put on quite a few pounds, but she never lost the potent alto that blended so becomingly with Yarrow and Stookey's voices...
After 27 years of serving ice cream to the Harvard Square masses, Herrell’s Ice Cream’s Dunster St. location may close as early as November.Financial pressure from rising costs and a new competitor in town with prime real estate on Mass. Ave. snowballed into “the perfect storm” for the much-loved ice cream shop, said Herrell’s owner Jeffrey Stanett, making its continued operation impractical, if not impossible.Instead, Stanett said he plans to open a casual restaurant by next spring in an expansion of Herrell?...
...Headline News channel last year, Beck has lit up the 5 p.m. slot in a way never thought possible by industry watchers, drawing upwards of 3 million viewers on some recent days. Indeed, despite his late-afternoon start, he sometimes beats even Bill O'Reilly, Fox's prime-time behemoth, in key ratings demographics. The value of his Fox contract is reliably said to be about $2 million per year. (See a Q&A with Glenn Beck...
...technology, ratings that would have gotten a talk-show host canceled in the late 1980s create a superstar today. (In 1987 comedian David Brenner bombed in syndication with about 2.5 million viewers at midnight - which is roughly what Fox, the leading network for political talk shows, averages in prime time...
...overwhelmed with feeling," said Hatoyama at his debut press conference, describing his reaction to being elected Prime Minister, "and at the same time I felt a hefty responsibility on my shoulders." The heft is more than responsibility: it is the weight of an entire nation - and a shadow shogun - looking over his shoulder...