Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thatcher immediately made it clear that there would be nothing demure or retiring about her leadership. In her words: "I am not a consensus politician. I am a conviction politician." Before Thatcher's victory last week, onetime rival Whitelaw declared: "She is a brilliant leader of the opposition, the best in a long, long time." Privately, however, some of her colleagues are more critical. Says one senior Tory: "She can be very petulant when up against criticism. When she gets into an argument she talks all the time. Talk. Talk. Talk. Because of this she is not a very good...
...most severe broadside directed at the electoral process came from the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, Muzorewa's main rival in the election and a colleague of his on the Executive Council that runs the interim government. After the polls closed, Sithole declared the elections a thumping success; within a few hours, he was charging that "gross irregularities" had occurred. Sithole's opponents accused him of being a bad loser, since his party, a branch of the Zimbabwe African National Union, got only 14½% of the vote. Later, it was announced that his party had won twelve parliamentary seats...
...system is very expensive, and rival cable operators doubt that it can be made to pay. But it is already having an impact on cable programming outside Columbus. In March, Warner began selling to cable operators nationwide 13 hours a day of children's programming, approved by Columbus viewers, under the general name Nickelodeon. Sample shows: Pinwheel for preschoolers, featuring puppets, mime and dance; Video Comic Books, showing pages of the Green Lantern and Space Ranger with dialogue balloons, voice-overs and sound effects; and America Goes Bananaz for teenagers, a mix of zany comedy and rap sessions about...
...indicate that all this poses little threat to the networks. Cable appeals to viewers uninterested or only mildly interested in the networks' sitcoms, cop shows and soap operas. Cable fans tend to be older than the Three's Company-Happy Days buffs; Showtime, HBO's biggest rival in pay-cable programming, aims many of its specials at an audience aged 40 to 45. A 1978 survey by Young & Rubicam and A.C. Nielsen Co. found that people whose sets are hooked to cable have highly "fragmented" viewing habits. They switch a lot from channel to channel rather than...
...made possible the idea of buying programming for the entire nation. We could offer new services and look to new sources of income." Teleprompter has invested heavily in earth stations for satellite transmission and now has 80 of them; in January it bought half of Showtime, HBO's rival pay-cable service...