Word: stationed
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...land- and carrier-based planes and missiles in the gulf to give Saddam's military and scientific establishment a pounding. Already 325 American warplanes are standing by, and later this week a third U.S. aircraft carrier, with 50 more attack jets, will arrive. Six of the 25 warships on station are outfitted with Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can drive their warheads into targets 1,000 miles away...
...remember my first Beanpot back in February of 1965," said B.C. alum Reed Oslon, the luncheon's keynote speaker. "I, like tens of thousands of other students over the years, took the Green line to North Station. I couldn't believe the excitement and the magic that really is the Beanpot. It's such a special event...
...experience demonstrates that if having the NFL is expensive, not having it is even more so. After CBS lost football, several of its affiliates jumped ship, weakening the network's local-station base. And building a new series into a hit became more difficult because the networks use sports to flog their other shows endlessly. Without a football lead-in, 60 Minutes' audience share shrank from 30% to 22%. CBS eventually sank to third place. With football, the network, which owns stations in seven AFC markets, insisted it would break even by selling more...
...This is a building block," says Neal Pilson, a sports-television consultant and former president of CBS Sports. "An expensive building block." If football can increase prime-time ratings by 1 point, "That could throw $50 million to the bottom line for a full season," says Pilson. For the stations, that can mean an additional $100 million a year. That's good enough even for a bottom-line zealot like Mel Karmazin, chairman of the CBS Station Group. Said he: "We know better than anybody else what it's like to have the NFL and what it's like...
...must lie on the tile floor of his room all day, not sitting up except for meals and bathroom breaks. And parents sign a contract allowing the school to use handcuffs, mace and stun guns on their children. "Restraints are rare," says Jay Kay, a former San Diego gas-station and mini-mart manager who owns and operates Tranquility Bay. "But we take them seriously, and we train for them...