Word: westerners
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...signal that can be picked up free by the 2 million U.S. households with satellite dishes. About 70% of those homes are in rural areas not wired for cable TV. Programming includes crop and livestock reports, country-music videos, a polka-music show and a smattering of old western movies. Patrick Gottsch, a former satellite-dish salesman who raised $4 million from investors to start RFD-TV, thinks the channel can attract enough advertising to turn a profit in its first year. Says investor Jim Harker of Omaha: "Nobody else is hitting the agricultural market. We're stepping into...
...American press showed an intense fascination with Israel throughout the 1960s and 70s, and usually slanted its coverage in the nation's favor. He said the American media's "obsession" with Israel is primarily rooted in Christian ideology and Israel's unique position in the Middle East as a Western-style democracy...
...example, Stanford--a university which finished first in the same poll for a few years--was not even mentioned in the top five. Falling from first to sixth place is too far to drop in just a few semesters--was it the decline of the school's Western Civilization courses or just a heightened earthquake scare...
Last night, the Harvard field hockey team ventured out into the cold of Western Massachusetts to play an offensively-charged Spring-field team, and lost...
...announcement that a hostage would be freed from Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine came in a 36-word handwritten statement in Arabic delivered to a western news agency in Beirut...