Word: vast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to happen overnight, but at some point the University's going to realize the vast disservice it did to the campus," one HUPD officer says...
Instead of being beholden to powers like Procter & Gamble, the networks get to call the shots. For instance, they're insisting that many start-ups pay in advance. "Everything's sold out," says Fred Reynolds, chief financial officer of CBS, which in addition to its TV empire owns a vast collection of radio stations and billboards. Though most of the old media won't trade ads outright with the dot.coms--the kind of bartering that takes place all the time in cyberspace--they will use the slots as currency. Rather than pay with stock or cash, CBS has swapped nearly...
...shifted its focus from international to national news and from national to my news--my health, my kids, my money. And as viewers have embraced the shows, so have the newsmakers who want to reach them. If you have a book to sell, a campaign to run or a vast right-wing conspiracy to denounce--as Matt Lauer learned in his 1998 interview with Hillary Clinton on NBC's Today--you do the morning shows. Says Lauer: "It used to be that if there was a major statement, a politician would come out at 4 p.m., because...
Richard Parker loves to work from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. A member of the Home Depot night staff, he restocks merchandise and serves customers at the vast Marina del Rey, Calif., store, where 6,000 customers visit each 24-hour day. Parker, 28, views his team as "a tight-knit family. We are the gears, not the outcasts," he says...
...summit in Lynchburg, Jerry Falwell vowed to help keep such violence from ever occurring again. For Matthew Shepard, the minister's promise comes too late. But that promise--contradictory, halting, uncertain, well-intentioned and human--may someday help make life less terrifying for gays and lesbians in this vast country...