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Congratulations! you have just won a date with John F. Kennedy Jr. Well, that's not exactly how the publisher of the new political magazine George (for George Washington) put it. But the fact that John F. Kennedy Jr. is editor in chief of the upstart publication is not incidental to the incredible 5.7% sign-up rate for the nearly quarter-million potential subscribers contacted-more than twice the industry standard. Even the John-lite mailing (ones with his name inside but not on the envelope) got a 5.1% response...
...investigation has frozen $1 billion in Fox deals to sell and buy TV stations, all meant to help the upstart network catch up with the Big Three. The probe threatens to kill one of these deals, the $38 million takeover of an nbc affiliate in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The FCC's investigation also forced Murdoch to place into trusteeship two powerful stations he bought under an option included as part of his $500 million investment last year in New World Communications, the deal that won Fox a dozen new affiliates-mostly from CBS -- in some of America's biggest...
Though few games have been played, the biggest surprise of the early Ivy League men's lacrosse season has been the emergence of upstart Harvard. With victories in its first two Ivy games, the Crimson has vaulted out ahead of the field into first place in the league...
...President may protest too much. The evidence of his marginalization is as much a matter of presumption as fact, but that is no less of a problem for him. The Ottawa exchange highlighted Clinton's re-election quandary: his first opponent is not a Republican, not even an upstart Demo-crat; it is the perception of his own irrelevance. Though Clinton's job-approval ratings have hovered near respectability in recent months, a large chunk of the electorate doesn't think he can win in 1996; almost half, in one poll, believes the country would be better...
...There is a lot of spin off from MIT," Bruner adds." [The area] is attractive to upstart businesses and established businesses...