Word: skips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wonder Fox wanted to be surrounded by armament. To be fair, Fox has used this scheduling ploy before, with some success - after another sitcom had bombed and left a smoldering crater in the lineup. Again, not exactly a hosanna for your development to say you'll just skip the middleman and pre-cancel a sitcom to be named later in advance...
...freshman had the bad luck of seeing a batted ball skip off of her glove and hit her in the face. She walked off the field under her own power, but Harvard was forced to bring in Thoke, who had pitched two innings of relief in the first game...
...rush hour; incentives for airlines to use larger aircraft that take up proportionately less space and time in crowded airports; encouraging, or forcing, use of secondary airports; gagging members of Congress who insist on nonstop, cheap flights from Podunk to Major Metropolis; and even (anti-government types should skip this part) reinstitution by the FAA of slots (that is, landing and takeoff rights) at the most delayed airports...
DOWN TO EARTH Travelers may overlook annoyances like American's new $10 paper-ticket surcharge if they can skip around the country for less than $200 and jet off to Europe for less than $360. With losses piling up--$825 million in the first quarter--airlines need to fill seats and are trying the best way they know how. "They'll offer the kitchen sink," says Tom Parsons of Bestfares.com Biz flyers, too, are sitting pretty, with some European fares down...
...your camcorder. To rescue the best footage of your kids' games, recitals and birthday parties, send your tapes to LifeClips.com The company converts a variety of tape formats to DVD for $15 an hour. Digitizing your entire archive can be pricey, but with scene indexing you can, say, skip a missed penalty kick and jump straight to the goal that put your daughter in the family history books...