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...networks were limited in the kind of programming they could own, but with the limits lifted, the pressure is on. CBS, which co-owns an unprecedented six of its seven new shows, gave King of Queens a slot on the schedule after COLUMBIA TRISTAR surrendered a share. NewsRadio, a so-so sitcom, was renewed for a fourth season after NBC, considered the most aggressive network, acquired profit participation from the producer, BRILLSTEIN-GREY, which most likely went for the deal in order to prolong the show's life and make it eligible for the big money of syndication. "Much better...
DIED. JOHN DEREK, 71, dreamy actor-director whose real talent lay not in his so-so acting (in All the King's Men and The Ten Commandments) but in marrying often and well (the four foxy actresses Patti Behrs, Ursula Andress, Linda Evans and, most recently, Bo Derek); of heart complications; in Santa Maria, Calif...
...networks were limited in the kind of programming they could own, but with the limits lifted, the pressure is on. CBS, which co-owns an unprecedented six of its seven new shows, gave "King of Queens" a slot on the schedule after Columbia Tristar surrendered a share. "NewsRadio," a so-so sitcom, was renewed for a fourth season after NBC, considered the most aggressive network, acquired profit participation from the producer, Brillstein-Grey, which most likely went for the deal in order to prolong the show's life and make it eligible for the big money of syndication. "Much better...
...cash cards are portable and convenient transaction devices--a description that also applies to currency. As John Frank, editor of the monthly magazine Card Technology, says, "People don't think of cash as being difficult." The world's leading cash-card company, Mondex International, controlled by MasterCard, has had so-so success in experiments in Canada. In the U.S., Visa tried launching a cash card in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics. It flopped, partly because users had to run all over town to find stores that could accept the cards. That's why more than 94% of all transactions...
...others among the 25, it was a so-so year. Harvard professor WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON published When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, which he had hoped would influence the debate on welfare reform. It did, but it was too late to head off a welfare bill he opposed. PHIL KNIGHT, CEO of Nike, saw a 77% increase in profits last quarter. That was clouded by the report of a Vietnamese-American labor activist that many Nike shoes are produced at plants in Vietnam where the mostly female work force faces corporal punishment and 12-hr. workdays...