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Vegemite: Australia, puckered face, blackish-greenish slime in ponds you can scoop...

Author: By Sharon C. Yang, | Title: Profile : Hayden F. Hirschfield '98 | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

Harvard and Brown exchanged baskets through the early part of the first half. Hadrick pulled out the first of several spectacular shots at the 16:35 mark, sinking a scoop-to-the-hoop and nailing the subsequent free throw to give Harvard a 7-6 lead...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: The Last Brown Win | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

...more networks offering another load of laugh tracks, retreads and raunchy wisecracks? Industry opinion is divided. Start-up costs have been estimated at $300 million apiece, and each network could lose between $50 million and $75 million in the first year alone. Also, unlike Fox, which was able to scoop up relatively strong independent stations in a number of markets when it began, Warner and Paramount have had to settle for the weaker leftovers. Paramount seems in the better position at the outset: it has signed up 96 affiliates (covering 79% of the country), and is promising advertisers an optimistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Network Crazy! | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

Butler set the rhythm of the game by scoring from under the rim for the game's first basket off a pass from Reinhard. The team captain followed up the basket with a scoop from underneath...

Author: By Amit A. Tiwari, | Title: Lady Cagers Shine in Florida | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...hours, until the polls closed, on the theory that the Great Unwashed must be protected from information that might discourage them from casting ballots -- and perhaps also to attract more viewers later, in prime time. But the news leaked out. Network employees felt no qualms about immediately phoning this scoop to their friends among top operatives for both political parties, who called their big campaign contributors, who called their brokers and whispered, "Buy!" By 3 p.m. the Dow Jones average was up 30 points on what TV business reporters coyly described as "rumors" of Republican gains in the elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: Right Makes Might | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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