Word: sites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contentious debate over the renewal of City Manager Robert W. Healy's contract and a vote authorizing the city to put links to City Council candidates on its Web site were the main topics of discussion at the meeting...
...stands to lose up to $150 million a year in an Arab boycott of its products. Despite Eisner?s assurances, Arab League officials are still demanding the right to inspect the "Millennium Village" before its opening to ensure that Islamic and Christian claims on Jerusalem are respected. And the site?s producers are left with the headache of creating an entertainment and education program that reconciles competing claims on the city?s identity. But hey, they don?t call it the Magic Kingdom for nothing...
...city's personality: NBC's, the Art Deco cool of Rockefeller Center; ABC's, the neon bustle of Times Square; CBS's, the fairy-tale vista of Central Park and the Plaza Hotel. "The idea of doing Christmas in New York City in the millennium year" from the site, gushes Early Show senior executive producer Steve Friedman, "is amazing." Meanwhile, GMA executive producer Shelley Ross praises her show's Broadway perch as "the crossroads of the world...
Yeah, but the live satellite feed doesn't hurt either. The cameo-in-every-pot strategy makes for what Friedman calls "retail television," forging bonds with camera hounds on site and viewers at home, who, the idea goes, warm to a network they see as embracing folks like themselves. Though some fans have to resort to ruses to win that embrace, as when two men snookered NBC into airing a kiss between them after luring cameras with a sign reading WILL U MARRY ME JILL...
...smiling face from half a world away. "It gives me great comfort," Ash says, three days into the monthlong trip. "Brian's staying with a family that doesn't speak much English. This is new to him." Before their kids left, parents checked the site for scheduling information, a list of activities and advice on cultural differences. There were some glitches along the way (at one point, the digital photo files weren't transmitting properly). But this new virtual connection between parent and school is a strong alternative to the paper memos Carson calls "backpack mail," about one-third...