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...sports cable channels, has only 15 million subscribers. The five-year-old NFL Network, which has waged mortal combat against cable operators for more favorable distribution terms, reaches just 42 million homes. The subscription revenues from the cable and satellite operators could keep the MLB Network buoyant in a tough advertising market. In fact, most analysts are bullish about the channel. "We expect them to be profitable from day one," says Derek Baine, a senior analyst at SNL Kagan, a cable-television-research firm...
...most of the biggest players in shipping are likely to survive. According to Oliviero Baccelli, a transportation economist at Bocconi University in Milan, that's because shippers have cut costs far faster and deeper than many of their counterparts in other industries. Shipping also enjoys a certain stability during tough times thanks to the enduring presence of family-run companies, and gradual consolidation over the past couple of decades has winnowed out the weak. "You have families who have hundreds of years of experience, who have lived through these situations and equipped themselves, and are resistant to speculation," says Baccelli...
...able to get today because he’s deserved it, and he made the best use out of it,” Amaker said. Freshman Hugh Martin made his Crimson debut, playing 10 minutes and bringing down three rebounds. The easy victory gives Harvard confidence heading into a tough stretch of games that will culminate with the team’s Ivy League opener on Jan. 10. “We have a two-game win streak…but we’re trying to build momentum for the Ivy League. We’re trying to find...
Mickey Spillane and Chandler, however, remain key to understanding Crumley, whose unflinching violence recalls the former and whose tough-guy poetry invokes the latter. A search for redemption in his work links Crumley to Ross Macdonald, but Crumley wrote characters who were more real, sad and believably flawed than any created by his predecessors...
...battle with the very same Netanyahu. Peres, who initially was considered a certainty to win the election, found his dovish reputation was working against him amid a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings and deadly Hizballah attacks against Israeli troops then occupying south Lebanon. In an attempt to create a tough-guy image, he ordered an air and artillery blitz against Hizballah in Lebanon, an operation dubbed Grapes of Wrath. However, Grapes of Wrath turned into a political disaster for Peres when a week into the assault Israeli artillery gunners shelled a UNIFIL base in south Lebanon killing over 100 Lebanese...