Word: slot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lower end, Cornell (9 points) can still catch Princeton (11) for the final slot. Dartmouth (16) and Colgate (14) are in for sure, but again, anything can happen...
...talk about a real climax--BC won a draw deep in the Husky zone with 1.9 seconds left and their goalie pulled. The puck came straight to Eagle captain Jack Callahan, who fired point-blank from the slot in search of a hat-trick for himself and overtime for his team. But goalie Mike Vesior came up big, and Northeastern, took home all the beans that a third-place pot can hold...
...previous agreement with Letterman's representatives, headed by Hollywood superagent Michael Ovitz, NBC had one month to try to match CBS's offer. Though neither Letterman nor NBC executives would divulge details of the negotiations, insiders say NBC made several offers, including a weekly prime-time slot. But Letterman rejected them. "If you were going to do a half-hour of prime-time television," he explained, "you would have to do it as well as Jerry Seinfeld does it. I couldn't do it that well, so why waste my time?" The prospect of a different kind of prime-time...
...Entertainment president Warren Littlefieldsaid Letterman's slot will be filled by a comedyproduced by Lorne Michaels
...news conference last night brought an end to months of highly publicized bidding between the networks. Letterman decided to leave NBC when the network failed to match CBS's final offer of approximately $14 million a year and an 11:30 time slot. Letterman did not appear at the news conference...