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...almost none of SNC's assets except the key one: 7.5 million subscriber households, most of which will be added to the 22.6 million that receive CNN or the 5.3 million that get a sister cable service, CNN Head line News. To some financial analysts, the price seemed steep. Many of SNC's house holds are already reached by one or both of Turner's services. Moreover, SNC had lost an estimated $60 million in 1 6 months, had failed to match CNN's depth and variety, and might have folded within a year...
...Shelburne Catalytic stove has two drawbacks. At $1,250, it is steep for a stove. And at 450 Ibs., it is very heavy. Vermont Stove Co. President Paul Bortz advises each customer, "Get four very big friends and a case of beer, and don't let them drink it until afterward...
...three marine regiments, which had been in separated positions around the reservoir, finally fought their way through to junction in Hagaru, to the south, after running into bloody ambushes along the roads. The Communists fired on them comfortably at steep grades and hairpin turns, where the marines' vehicles slowed to a crawl. A dreadful indication of the casualties in this sector was that 1,200 wounded were flown out in the first two days...
...notorious massacre of Christians by Druze in 1860. The Christian militiamen claim there are now 40,000 refugees crammed into the village. In other times, Deir al Qamar would strike a visitor as a wondrous place, with its fountain in a central square and its houses clinging to a steep mountainside. But today it is, as Mayor George Dib Nehme puts it, "like a very small jail with far too many people." He continues: "We have no assurances of food, water or medicine. We are living day by day, and there is no end in sight. Fourteen people have been...
...fascinated by knights and pageantry," says Actor Matthew Broderick, 21, now in Italy filming Ladyhawke, a medieval love story. Turning myth into filmed reality, however, has been anything but child's play. "The first day of shooting I was asked to ride a horse up a steep hill to a castle; at the same time I was told to hold on to a live hawk with a glinting brown eye," says Broderick, who was last seen on-screen playing WarGames with a renegade Defense Department computer. This time he is a young thief who dashes...