Word: rerun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that ad budgets have escaped the Reagan Administration's ax. The Internal Revenue Service will be forced to rerun old ads this month urging Americans to file early; there is no money in the IRS budget for new advertising. The gutted Energy Department was not was not heard from at all this winter in matters of conservation, as it was during the Carter years. Gone, too, is the voice of the almost extinct Consumer Product Safety Commission, which once advertised appeals for safer lawn mowers, chain saws and children's clothing...
...something to run away from. So they clone whatever was successful elsewhere. Just watch: next year's surefire hit will be called Magnum E.T. They'll have a hairy guy with a mustache come in from outer space. Me, I'd rather watch a rerun of The Honeymooners...
...hits that have gone to syndication heaven have come back to haunt the networks. MASH, whose first ten seasons are spinning out on local stations, consistently wins higher ratings in New York City than the networks' nightly news shows. One recent Thursday in the Los Angeles market, a rerun of Three's Company on a local independent station was the top-rated show of the night, higher than Hill Street Blues, Simon & Simon or Magnum, P.I. Says Frederick S. Pierce, president and chief operating officer of ABC, Inc.: "The impact on our ratings is less from...
...Harvard cannot expect a rerun of the Gerald Walker no-show today. Harmon has made every practice this week and intends to help his 0-3 team assert itself and reverse a 27-10 setback Harvard administered last year in Ithaca...
...rerun of a bitter political contest whose first round was fought in 1978. Then as now, the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Massachusetts featured Michael Dukakis against Edward King. In both elections the incumbent lost. But four years ago, it was Challenger King who upset Governor Dukakis, while last week the deposed Dukakis, 48, won the nomination away from Governor King, 54% to 46%. It was also the state's costliest campaign ever: Dukakis spent $2 million, King $3 million. Dukakis' Republican opponent in November, also nominated last week, will be John Winthrop Sears, 51, a well...