Word: avoiding
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...question of network ego," says Martin Plissner, former executive political director of CBS News. "It's a question of whose is bigger." Another problem is noncompetition. Networks share VNS data and then hire analysts, who race to crunch the same numbers. Competing operations might have more incentive to avoid errors - or at least wouldn't multiply them...
...with transgressions but in the process also demythologized it. Even the election-night debacle may have, perversely, done a public service by undermining the credibility of exit polls and electoral projections. Media critics have long argued that networks should not call races until all polls have closed to avoid affecting turnout. It's a moot argument: information will out, not least because people want it. Tuesday afternoon, web surfers overwhelmed the Drudge Report, where Matt Drudge had posted exit-poll results...
...never gone out looking for anything," she says, speaking of the avalanche of adaptations and licensing. "It all comes to me." She volunteers this information to avoid the rap that she's exploiting Seuss and explains that by creating trademarks in various media, she's protecting her husband's creations. Yet some of Geisel's decisions, notably to publish some material that her notoriously perfectionist husband left unpublished, are difficult even for her to explain. "Because everyone out there wanted it," she says, "and because Random House wanted...
Vermont captain Andreas Moborg, who scored 14 points in a shortened 17 game season last year, will lead the Catamounts from the blueline. Although the Crimson stack up better player-for-player against Vermont, Harvard will have to be careful to avoid an upset against a squad that will have a lot of extra motivation to win after a long absence...
...brutal facts about the region: 19 of its 25 states were concerned areas of high risk to U.S. personnel. This despite the fact that the governments of most of these states are U.S. allies. And earlier this week, it was reported that the U.S. Navy has decided temporarily to avoid the Suez Canal, instead rerouting vessels around the southern tip of Africa to reach the Gulf. This was a troubling indicator of the state of the Pax Americana that has prevailed in the region since the Gulf War. After all, the whole point of deploying your navy in distant waters...