Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, cable visionaries have promised a day when everyone from sailing enthusiasts to opera lovers would have a cable channel to suit his tastes. But the new cable programmers are pursuing a more old-fashioned strategy: aiming for a broad-based audience by replicating fare that already gluts the airwaves. Meanwhile dozens of other worthy cable aspirants -- channels devoted to history, health, fine arts, golf -- are struggling to be born. There may well be an audience for more knockoffs of Oprah, more sappy morning shows and more reruns of Dynasty. But viewers looking for the diverse array of niche programming...
...Schott might have appreciated, such as Radio Shack's putting out a video game with a swastika in it, or an American Airlines ground crew's ordering a change of pillows after a gay-rights group exited the aircraft. Once in a while, companies apologize to avoid a libel suit, as nbc did after it rigged a crash test so a General Motors pickup truck would be sure to explode...
...other damaging incentives of the welfare system, the arguments break out. The hottest topic at the moment is the family cap. Already in New Jersey, Arkansas and Georgia, families receive no increase for children born while on the dole, and Clinton's plan would allow other states to follow suit. Since the average increase of about $67 is much less than the cost of raising another child, welfare mothers didn't really have much economic incentive to have more kids. But this above all is a symbolic issue, a chance for the government to send a message about...
Responding to Paula Jones' claims in her sexual-harassment suit against President Clinton, Arkansas state trooper Danny Ferguson denied in court papers ever telling Jones that Clinton wanted to meet her in a hotel room, as ; she alleges. Ferguson does recall Jones saying she was attracted to Clinton...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People began its annual three-day summit in Baltimore with a call to boycott South Carolina. The group was reacting to a statement by a federal judge in the Palmetto State, who said he doubted that a suit to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse had much of a chance of success. More quietly, the N.A.A.C.P. welcomed Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, to their gathering...