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...woes have been long in the making. Such reliables as The Cosby Show and The Golden Girls are aging, and NBC has no new hits to take up the slack. One consolation: other networks are facing a similar drought. So far, only one new program has made the top 20 -- ABC's Home Improvement...
...Rams running game is still hurting from the preseason loss of number-one halfback Darren Nelson, but look for Scott Helverson (36 carries for 116 yards) to pick up the slack...
...What about the argument that working women have brought these problems on themselves and are now asking the government to pick up the slack...
...recession has reduced the viewer response rate for some infomercials, but at the same time it has made the lengthy commercials even more attractive to stations: when ad revenues are slack, it is hard to turn down an advertiser who wants to purchase a big chunk of time. "The more financially pressed stations are, the less they're offended by infomercials," says Rader Hayes, a consumer economist at the University of Wisconsin. In a survey released in January by the National Association of Television Program Executives, 90% of station officials who responded said they have run at least some infomercials...
...substantial amount of land with limited payment, while the cost of school books, blood for hospitals and other expenses continue to go up for the city," says City Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, nothing that city governments across the country are looking to universities to pick up the slack resulting from the recession...