Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CNNfn, that specialize in business news. Another two--one from ESPN, the other from CNN and Sports Illustrated--will soon be offering around-the-clock sports news. On radio, news dribbles out daily on all-news stations and is dissected by opinionated talk-show hosts like Imus, Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh. Local TV news programming is booming--up to six or seven hours a day on some stations--and 18 regional cable channels offer 24-hour local news...
...world. What has exploded is not news, but talk about the news; commentary, not information. Which makes the news explosion both more democratic and more suspect. Everyone from Kathie Lee Gifford to call-in viewers on Larry King Live has a viewpoint, and every viewpoint gets a hearing. Howard Stern may be as influential as Peter Jennings. MSNBC fills its airtime with a corps of interchangeable "contributors" who offer seat-of-the-pants opinions on whatever the big story of the day happens to be. It's cocktail party chat passing for journalism...
...games provide a stern test of skill (and tolerance) in a wide range of events. Hand-eye coordination, upper body strength and mental toughness are all challenged at some point during the weekend...
...Over a period of several years, Harvard fell considerably short of the strict legal requirements designed to reduce the diversion of legitimate drugs to illegal uses," U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern said in a statement. "The upshot was thefts of drugs, inaccurate inventories, sloppy storage and improper distribution of drugs to unregistered sites...
...Angeles area, to distribute Redux to eager customers. One chain alone, California Weight Loss Medical Associates, has 19 centers and a catchy toll-free number (1-888-4FEN-FEN) that it advertises in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily News and on Howard Stern's syndicated radio show. Some places offer discounts for customers who buy in bulk. Many, says Dr. Michael Myers, an obesity expert in Los Alamitos, California, hand out prescriptions for fen/phen "like cheap Halloween candy...