Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name discount chains that require little in the way of display space, sales help and security personnel because customers order merchandise from catalogues. Thus the companies can undercut many of the big low-price chains like K mart. The other, the Carlson Premium Group, which last year got one-third of its $250 million revenues from Gold Bond Stamps, organizes incentive programs for companies that reward high-achieving employees and dealers with expensive trips and gifts. Carlson also has a sporting-goods importing business, a diamond wholesaling operation, a gold-jewelry manufacturing firm, a natural gas exploration and production company...
...continued slump in the news division. Weekend magazine, critically praised but sparsely watched, was scrapped. ABC's Good Morning, America continues to gain ground on the Today show, which once ate the competition for breakfast. Worse still, two weeks ago, the Nightly News briefly fell into third place in the ratings for the first time ever. The network partly attributed the drop to ABC's rejuvenated news operation. It also admitted that affiliate switches had hurt; in the past two years, NBC has lost ten major local stations to ABC, affecting the ratings for both news and entertainment...
Pfeiffer answers to Silverman, but it is widely assumed that she has a clear line to RCA Chairman Griffiths. Her main areas of concentration are government relations, legal affairs and employee relations, and she has also been what Silverman calls a "third eye," or a disinterested critic, in prime-time programming. Naturally enough, Silverman has devoted almost all his attention to programming. Says an NBC executive: "Fred is like an eager little boy with a highly developed feeling and sense of how to fix programs, and he couldn't care less about all this monkey business about corporate skill...
Brown was staked to a 1-0 margin in the first when Bobby Kelley hit Nurthen's first pitch to right for a single (extending his hitting streak to 13 games), and went to third when a Nurthen move to first took off for the alfalfa fields. Mike Stenhouse then singled Kelley home with the last Crimson...
Dave Waters led off the Cornell first with a single and advanced to third on a picture hit-run play with Chico "I'm not obnoxious, just spirited" Bengochea. Both scored when Gary Kaczor and Marlin McPhail followed with singles...