Word: units
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...network-television business has become. CBS paid $4 billion to get back in the game, intercepting rights to the American Football Conference previously held by NBC. A day later ABC, the No. 3 network, outbid NBC with a $4.4 billion deal to retain Monday Night Football. Its cable unit, ESPN (which shared Sunday-night games with Turner Broadcasting's TNT for eight years), dropped $4.8 billion to acquire the entire NFL cable-television package through the 2005 season, giving Team Mouse a sweep. Not to be outrun, News Corp.'s Fox Broadcasting extended its National Football Conference deal with...
...sent to the bench as a result of CBS's acquisition of its AFC rights, had to resort to claiming rational behavior to explain coming up empty-handed. Executives at the unit of giant General Electric called the contract bids "reckless," saying it wasn't worth more than $340 million a year to keep the AFC rights, the weakest in the package, or more than $500 million a year to obtain Monday Night, considered the strongest. "There was no chance of making money in this deal," said Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, after the announcements. "I'll guess...
...that's the case, VW execs might want to take a spin. Over the past decade, the company's North American unit has been hammered. Although last year VW of America increased sales 1.2%, to 137,885 cars, that's only a third of the metal VW of America moved in its mid-1960s heyday. The idea of reviving the Bug came after VW buffs went wild over a Beetle built for display at the Detroit auto show four years ago. The company did some market research and decided it might be able to win Americans back by rolling...
...been wavering all year long," said Asano of the team's struggling special team unit. "We took time and I think that's real important. Usually we rush it and freak out, but today we thought about it and played well...
...panel's recommendations. Nevertheless, Cohen had already made it clear that he opposes separating men and women during basic training. "We're going to train together," he said flatly in September, "because we're going to fight together." Others have already attacked the findings. "You have to start the unit cohesion and the bonding at the beginning," says Army Major Mary Finch, a West Point graduate and helicopter pilot. Senator Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican who serves on the Armed Services Committee, calls the report "a disturbing step backwards." Karen Johnson, a retired Air Force officer...