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...cable. For another, authentic new network hits seem harder and harder to come by. When the audience for network TV was huge and habitual, nearly anything that programmers threw out at least got sampled. Today most new shows seem doomed to demise unless they get a time slot next to an established hit. Of the 22 network series introduced last fall, only two wound up in the season's Top 30. One, A Different World, had the foolproof time period after The Cosby Show; the other, My Two Dads, followed Family Ties...
...ties in New England, the Crimson (5-2-2 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) is forced to win the rest of its regional games to be considered by the tournament selection committee. The Big Green (5-3 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) is sixth in the regional rankings one slot behind Harvard, and can do nothing but gain from today's contest...
...doors opened into a slightlyancient little world completely removed from theglitz eight stories below. There were six or sevenglass and wood doors in the hallway. Next to theelevator, which had bare blue and red bulbs forits up/down signals, was a glass mail chute with abrass-embossed eagle on the slot...
Until recently, companies did not have to be too concerned about the needs of these new employees. If a woman wanted to take time off to have a baby or reduce her hours to spend more time with a child, the employer could easily fill her slot with another worker. During the 1970s, the U.S. work force increased by an average of 3 million people a year. But in the next decade, as the baby bust -- the smaller generation behind the huge baby boom -- comes of age, the labor force will grow more slowly than at any other time since...
While the Soviet superiority was undisputed, there was ample grousing about the scoring among the more mediocre men's teams. The U.S., which finished eleventh of twelve, complained that its bad luck in drawing an early slot in the team competition doomed Americans to low scores. It was true that, as often happens, the scores accelerated wildly during the course of the competition, probably shorting some Americans of precious tenths of points. But even a tenth of a point here or there could not have brought the Americans into medal contention. They finished 8.75 points behind the third-finishing Japanese...