Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheerleader, creating the nation's first satellite-beamed superstation, WTBS, and confounding skeptics by successfully launching TV's first 24-hour news channel, the Cable News Network. In the mid-'80s, however, the cable industry hit a slump, and so did Turner. His 1984 attempt to start a music- video channel died after just a month on the air, his much publicized bid to take over CBS was an expensive fizzle, and his acquisition of MGM left the Turner Broadcasting System so debt ridden that it was forced to get a bailout from a group of cable companies...
...season's end, the cagers produced an "Ivy League Shuffle" video (this was the year of the Chicago Bears) as well as a 20-6 record (9-3 in the Ivies). They even entertained slim hopes of receiving an invitation to the NCAA tournament...
Since Panama uses U.S. dollars as its currency, the sanctions have managed to reduce drastically the supply of circulating money. But most of the country's 2.3 million people have evidently found ways to cover the necessities and then some. Discotheques are still crowded on Friday nights, and home-video rentals are booming. Some consumers are even finding bargains as businesses compete for scarce dollars by offering bonuses. One fast-food chain offers a double-size barrel of fried chicken for the price of a single, served up in what it calls the "crisis pack...
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...been unique to CBS.) Boyer is on the shakiest ground in his final chapter, in which he tries to fit the events of the past year -- when CBS News' fortunes have improved -- into his anti-Sauter thesis. His assertion that Rather's newscast has degenerated into a "broad-reaching video tabloid" seems particularly unfounded...