Word: torrent
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...show after screening it at an ABC affiliates' meeting in June. Says station manager George Hulcher: "The kind of product they showed us was not for broadcast television. It's for cable." Jan McDaniel, general manager of Wichita's KAKE, rejected the show after a torrent of anti-NYPD Blue letters and phone calls that followed local newspaper coverage of the controversy. Says McDaniel: "I received so many thoughtful expressions of frustration, I felt we had to take a stand...
...still spare risky time to help others, like a child being ignored, at peril to his life, in an emergency room. He still has the recklessness that comes to people who have nothing left to lose (the most spectacular of his hair-breadth escapes is a dive into the torrent coursing over a dam hundreds of feet high). And he still has his own pursuit to pursue -- of the one-armed man whom he alone knows is his wife's actual murderer...
Goodrich has plenty of company. Last week, after thousands of entrepreneurs unleashed a torrent of protest letters and faxes on Capitol Hill, President Clinton scrambled to offer reassurance. "Unless we are firmly committed to small-business growth, we cannot succeed as a country," he said in a hurriedly arranged appearance before a group of small-company executives. His message did little to silence their gripes, most notably the complaint that provisions in the House and Senate tax bills designed to soak the rich will drown small enterprises. That is because about 80% of businesses in the U.S. pay taxes...
...addition to the flood of errors that plagued the Crimson fielders, starting pitcher sophomore Jana Meader could not stop the torrent of experienced Princeton batters who kept hammering away, hit after...
EVERY MAJOR INITIATIVE OF THE CLINTON WHITE House is preceded by a torrent of leaks testing public reaction. The health-care reform program is being billed as the most fundamental change in domestic policy since the Social Security Act of 1935. So the leaks are becoming a flood. Examples: the Administration wants to ensure generous coverage for mental illness, and it is considering price controls to hold down the costs of extending medical coverage to those not now insured. Options include a short-term freeze on prices charged by doctors, hospitals, laboratories and nursing homes, and a cap on insurance...