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...still affiliated with one of the Big Three, the number of commercial, English- language independents has more than doubled since 1979, to 235, and their audiences have grown apace. Between 1979 and 1984 the networks' share of the U.S. viewing audience fell from 89% to 76%. Independents reckon they picked up about half that audience, with the rest turning to cable programming and videocassette recorders. "We think our opportunity lies in the decline of the networks' share of the viewing audience," Diller says. "Those viewers didn't just turn off their sets. They turned to independent stations and that...
...Webster, N.Y. native served notice last month that he might be a force to reckon with, when he hauled in a 60-yd. touchdown pass that proved the difference in Harvard's 10-3 win over UMass...
...Tests to reckon whether the people of Casmalia are endangered have proved inconclusive. In 1984 a county consultant found some chemical pollutants in water from Casmalia's town well, and concentrations of arsenic and lead were detected in a sample of private well water taken in town last spring. Traces of benzene, 1,4-dioxane and other chemicals were found in air samples taken around Casmalia last December, but all were at levels below those the EPA considers dangerous...
...danger that all progressive groups have to reckon with is the policies of the Reagan administration and the conservative movement, not their own relatively minor differences," Weissman said...
...wounds are merely physical, and his plastic surgery seems to be healing nicely. Birdy's case is altogether more desperate, and the main business of the film is to explore its roots. A sociologist might point to the usual downers: poverty, loneliness and lovelessness. But that would reckon without Birdy's mysterious singularity, expressed in his obsession with the avian world...