Word: tidal
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...answers go to the heart of the tidal change that is transforming network television. Old verities, like the Nielsen ratings, are no longer holy writ. Shows that a few years ago would have been canceled are today being acclaimed as hits. Programmers who once juggled schedules at the drop of a Nielsen decimal point are now making those moves warily. And everybody is wondering whether television's mass audience -- those huge blocs of viewers who used to assemble in front of the set for shows like I Love Lucy and All in the Family and Roots -- has dispersed for good...
Carrier has directed his mathematical geniustowards a better understanding of tidal waves,fuel efficiency in futuristic aircraft and anuclear winter scenario...
...which First Amendment experts immediately labeled an invalid exercise of prior restraint. A four-judge appeals panel promptly agreed, lifting the order the next day and noting that since books had been shipped to 1,500 wholesalers, suppression was a practical impossibility. By the end of the week, a tidal wave of new orders prompted St. Martin's to + increase the print run to 200,000, practically guaranteeing that it will be high on the best-seller list. "This never would have happened had it not been for the attempt to suppress the book," says Thomas McCormack, the chairman...
Shannon, addressing supporters less than two hours after the polls closed, said, "there was a tidal wave coming and we happened to be standing on the beach when...
Once aloft in the dark void of space, the Hubble promises a leap in astronomical observing power unlike anything since 1609, when Galileo first pointed a telescope at the heavens. As never before, astronomers have a realistic hope of seeing planets that orbit distant stars, watching tidal waves of energy swirl around black holes and spotting the birth of galaxies. The Hubble, says presidential science adviser D. Allan Bromley, "will open entirely new windows on the universe...