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...President's response, or lack thereof. The answer is not so much in the evidence as in his face and on his lips. Even for a grammar-loving person like myself, it's a bad sign when you have to parse his sentences to get through his syntactical tap-dance to the truth. His answer to Lehrer's simple question about the scandal was disturbingly complex: "I did not ask anyone to tell anything other than the truth. There is no improper relationship." Note the indefinite pronouns, "anyone" and "anything". He's taken the question out of the personal realm...
Still, ABC will have to tap other revenue sources. The company laterals its present affiliates about $175 million a year to air network programs in agreed-upon time slots. Iger is calling for a reverse. He wants the affiliates to kick in for their pigskin privileges. "We expect owners to step up and help us pay for it," he says. Iger might be asking you for a couple of nickels too. ESPN, which charges cable operators a program fee for each subscriber, will probably raise rates. The cable operators will hand off those increases to you know...
Pascarella is targeting corporate and small-business markets, where American Express holds a commanding 65% edge. To make inroads, Visa wants to tap the more than $300 billion that U.S. companies spend each year on everything from pencils to planes without using credit cards. "The big opportunity is to displace cash and checks," says Michael Beindorff, Visa's executive vice president for marketing and product management. "It's a market that's there for the taking." Beindorff points out that Visa has already raised its share of the business market from 3% to 20% since 1991, in part by signing...
...national survey on driving behavior so far, a Michigan firm, EPIC-MRA, found that an astounding 80% of drivers are angry most or all of the time while driving. Simple traffic congestion is one cause of irritation, but these days just about anything can get the average driver to tap his horn. More than one-third of respondents to the Michigan survey said they get impatient at stoplights or when waiting for a parking space; an additional 25% can't stand waiting for passengers to get in the car. And 22% said they get mad when a multi-lane highway...
...department of a TV station was balanced perfectly between reality and parody. Filmed in documentary style, it achieved some brilliant moments of deadpan humor, and Ken Finkleman, the show's creator, played the news director with a wicked combination of egotism, pettiness and desperation. Imagine Broadcast News meets Spinal Tap...