Word: switched
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...scouting available stations, the competition is tough. He could attempt to buy companies that own several stations, like Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting, which has eight. Or he could pick them off one by one. Last month the boss himself persuaded the owners of a South Bend, Indiana, station to switch its affiliation from...
Their marriage has been on and off like a light switch, but now Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson say they have definitely made up their mind: it's off. A spokesman for the couple (seen here in happier days last year) confirmed that the split was final. Conveniently, Griffith has never withdrawn the divorce papers she filed in March 1994, before the twosome attempted a last reconciliation. Also conveniently, Griffith has reportedly struck up a new relationship-with Antonio Banderas, her (married) co-star in the recently wrapped romantic comedy Two Much...
...last of the "boats" that first made Detroit famous. By year's end, the world's biggest car company will discontinue its once-beloved, rear-wheel drive behemoths (the Buick Roadmaster, Cadillac Fleetwood, Chevrolet Caprice and Impala). GM's Arlington, Tx., assembly plant, which makes the big cars, will switch gears and start churning out popular full-size pickup trucks instead...
...switch to Young America gave Conner's team less than a week to learn to sail the new boat, but that was less risky than sailing the sluggish Stars & Stripes against the swift Black Magic I. "Young America's deck layout is different, but we're getting used to it," said Trenkle. "It's like getting a new car and the knobs are not where you think they...
...sudden switch prompted outrage in New Zealand, of course. "Dennis is doing what he's always doing," Prime Minister Jim Bolger told reporters. "He's bending the rules a little. I mean, it wouldn't be a final race if he didn't do that." Trenkle shrugged off the complaints and said, "With all the bad things written about Dennis over the years, this just rolls off his back...