Word: slid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bryant Gumbel, 41, whose self-satisfied manner many find as off-putting as Norville's plastic perfection, will remain. So will Norville, 31, who has been officially exonerated for the ratings calamity. "She's not on the way out," insists Today's executive producer, Tom Capra. "The ratings have slid because Jane left the show, not because of Deborah. Deborah's a solid journalist, and I believe the audience will like her as they are exposed to her." Garagiola, Capra maintains, will "bring out what is really going on with her." So it seems that one host has been hired...
...Norville, new co-anchor on the Today show and a closet accordion player, assaulted her audience with a blunt instrument rendition of the dreaded Lady of Spain. No earthquakes were reported, though the performance succeeded in further sinking the show's shaky Nielsens, while Norville's personal Richter rating slid glissando-style to C below low A, somewhere to the left of the keyboard...
...from its rapid expansion into Europe. By selling Gulfstream, 45% of its shares in the Japanese automaker Mitsubishi and other assets, Chrysler will generate more than $2 billion to add to its cash kitty of $2.2 billion. While Chrysler's share of the U.S. car and truck market slid half a percentage point last year, to 13.5%, the company exited the decade with a larger portion than it had at the beginning...