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That is changing, but slowly. The economic slump has left consumers reluctant to invest $2,000 or more in new TV gear. Broadcasters, especially network affiliates, and cable systems have resisted HDTV, citing the costs of new equipment and lack of programming. At last month's meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas, the anti-HDTV forces worried aloud about piracy of satellite-transmitted high-def movies and even questioned whether the technology would ever work. Cuban, whose technology works just fine, retorts that movie studios are running around like Chicken Little and should be more worried...
...latter tendency often happens independent of preparation and effort, and that’s what makes Harvard’s season-long hitting slump so frustrating...
Reader’s Digest has seen its profits slump with the economy, but nevertheless purchased Reiman Publications for $760 million in March, causing Highfields to step up the struggle to take control of Reader’s Digest...
...breakthrough game for Shakir, who had been mired in a 1-for-30 slump entering the weekend...
...answer this question, some context is necessary. A recurrent theme in Yale campus media in recent months has been the remarkably successful performance of Yale’s endowment during the recent economic slump, especially as compared with (gasp!) Harvard’s, which has sustained a loss of about a billion dollars during the downturn...