Word: aftermarket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...significant factor in the increase in bombings is that the dissemination of bomb know-how has become a minor industry. The past few decades have produced the rise of mail-order publishing companies that serve the so-called gun aftermarket, including the gun fanciers, survivalists, wannabe cops and closet anarchists who like to shop for such products as laser sights, camouflage, fake badges and fake fbi and atf hats. Some of their most popular offerings are "burn-and-blow'' books that describe in detail how to make landmines, booby traps and bombs. "The information is available on the Internet...
...broadcast network. NBC views Turner's cable networks TBS and TNT as a promising market for NBC reruns. Explains network president Braun: "Historically, what's always happened is that the broadcast networks create the value for a show and the third parties are able to exploit it in the aftermarket. Now the networks can participate in the value they create. And that aftervalue is increasingly going to be exploited in media supported not by advertising dollars alone but by consumer dollars -- like basic cable and various forms of pay-per-view...