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...station's history -- "Then and now, covering news like never before." Now, however, it will be covering the news as a Fox station. Many former Fox affiliates, too, are not happy at being dumped by the network they stuck with during bad times and good. "A tough pill to swallow? More like trying to swallow a football," griped Dennis Thatcher, general manager of Cleveland's WOIO-TV in the Hollywood Reporter. Murdoch's response: "We sympathize with ((the abandoned Fox stations)). But they've all done very well. Their UHF stations were built up into real assets...
This is a hard line for Muller to swallow, and he presses Riefenstahl to defend her opinions against critics who say that "Triumph of the Will" was a glorification of the Nazis...
...appointment of Albert Carnesale as provost may be the prescription that integrates the University's decentralized schools and departments, but it is a bitter pill for the Kennedy School of Government faculty to swallow...
...seems unable to stay focused for more than a couple of seconds, and can't seem to decide whether she wants to go home, find Cornelius, or run away and join a singing troupe. This confusion is not aided by the fact that the story's narrator, a French swallow named Jacquimo is incredibly annoying, and seems to pop in and out without warning or respect for what's going on. With a large number of cameos by noted personalities, it is surprising that so few of these char acters are memorable or even fun to watch. EvenGilbert Gottfried...
...enabled fleets of all sizes and nationalities to venture farther from port than ever before. Sonar and radar helped locate the fish wherever they were hiding. Satellite-navigation systems let ships return over and over to prime spots. Newly built "factory ships" deployed nets so huge that they could swallow 12 jumbo jets in a single gulp. Led by the U.S., many countries made waters up to 200 miles from their shores off limits to foreign boats. But as soon as intruding vessels drew farther out to sea, domestic fleets expanded to take advantage of reduced competition...