Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 keeping their eyes glued to one for hours. But the survey concluded that viewers do not tune out network shows to tune in cable. Rather they watch cable at times that...
Thievery aggravates another nagging problem: service. When something goes wrong with a cable-attached set, there may well be a problem determining whether the trouble is in the set, the cable hookup or the decoder box. If the latter two, the cable operator must provide service; some operators are quick in responding to calls, others are not. Thieves tapping ineptly into a cable system can ruin cable reception for everyone on a block...
...Ferrante put the attack together, set up the plays and kept us moving," St. Louis said. "She played smart, heads-up lacrosse, all weekend," St. Louis added...
...Radcliffe boat jumped out to a quick three seat lead at the start and continued to increase the bulge, taking advantage of a high (41-stroke) cadence set by Peterson during the first 500 meters of the course...
...doubles battle with Dartmouth's Mark Jeffrey and Mark Schneider, a duo they had allowed but one game in a dual meet almost two weeks ago. Walker fell to Brown's Steve Piscuskas in the singles, a player the Crimson's Bob Horne had vanquished in straight sets earlier in the year. Chaikovsky dropped a tight three-set match against Williams' Martin Goldberg in the quarterfinals of the "A" singles...