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...club spawned the Outdoor Channel. Within two years, the channel was dominated by hunting and fishing shows and was being distributed by a few carriers in the Southeast. By the end of 1998 it had 5 million subscribers; last year it reached 15 million. Despite the industry's advertising slump, ad revenue grew 18% last year, to $8.6 million. Says Daryl Daigre, vice president of marketing for Mossy Oak, a camouflage-and-hunting-accessories chain: "They deliver our ultimate consumer to us." While larger networks are queasy about showing the actual felling of animals, the Outdoor Channel shows the "kill...
...moves into his second year as Harvard’s 27th president, Lawrence H. Summers has no plans for a sophomore slump...
...compare Sept. 11 with Dec. 7, 1941, that other day that will live in infamy. For the U.S., World War II really was epochal. More than 12 million were mobilized into the armed forces; nearly 300,000 died in battle; the economy was rescued from a deep slump; technological innovation proceeded at a pace never seen before; the social and economic position of women was transformed; the carapace of legal racial segregation began to crack; weapons were developed that could end life on earth; and in the war's shadow, the G.I. Bill created a mass middle class...
...reforms into place gradually?and ride out any waves of protest. With the leftist opposition in disarray after its electoral trouncing last June, Raffarin's stiffest challenge may come from the European Union: its requirement that budget deficits steadily come down will be tough during an economic slump, especially if Raffarin cuts taxes without shrinking the public sector. That's an economic equation studded with contradiction and conflict?qualities the Raffarin team so far has demonstrated in abundance...
...compare Sept. 11 with Dec. 7, 1941, that other day that will live in infamy. For the U.S., World War II really was epochal. More than 12 million were mobilized into the armed forces; nearly 300,000 died in battle; the economy was rescued from a deep slump; technological innovation proceeded at a pace never seen before; the social and economic position of women was transformed; the carapace of legal racial segregation began to crack; weapons were developed that could end life on earth; and in the war's shadow, the G.I. Bill created a mass middle class...