Word: bustingly
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Then there is TV, where baseball is dying. NBC paid $400 million for baseball-broadcast rights through 2000. Yet in 1997, the World Series was such a ratings bust that the network's Don Ohlmeyer publicly prayed for a four-game sweep. He wanted baseball--the World Series!--off the air so he could get his viewers back...
...Wall Street. In the past, flamed-out cures for everything from cholera to cancer have burned those who dared put their money on a biotech dream. Just in case you forgot, or are too young to remember: there was a heart-fluttering, blood-clotting, joint-stiffening biotech bubble and bust in the early '90s, and Mr. Market has thoughtfully rewound the tape. The group's first decent rally in 10 years took shape last December. Biotechs bedazzled for three months, surging 175%--only to crumble over the past few weeks. A slew of "promising" companies are now worth half what...
...settlement comes hard on the heels of the Patrick Dorismond case, in which Giuliani irked even some of his most strident supporters by bad-mouthing an unarmed black man who was shot to death by police in a botched buy-and-bust operation. Observers on both sides of the aisle complained that the mayor's handling of the Dorismond incident showed insensitivity and proved that he's incapable of reaching out to those who aren't his traditional supporters. Following the mayor's salvos against Dorismond, which included releasing the dead man's sealed juvenile criminal record, Clinton took...
...heart of the suit. Microsoft also appears willing to loosen licensing agreements to let PC makers customize their products. With the company willing to agree to change its conduct, the question now is whether Klein will give in on his demand for structural changes that might force a bust-up - a step Microsoft will fight...
...bust in the foyer has a better chance of pulling this all off. "But Pat is a shrewd political analyst, and he'll be very capable of looking at the battlefield and figuring out which wounded to go heal," says McCain strategist Ken Khachigian, who thinks his old friend Buchanan can tip the outcome in November, harassing Gore but potentially torpedoing Bush. Oddly enough, Buchanan might never get the chance. The Reform Party functions like a flophouse for political gypsies and social outcasts, and no two members can agree on the time of day. Jesse Ventura was promoting Donald Trump...