Word: cheaper
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...latest round of belt tightening, however, has an odd new twist: network news, by some measures, is booming. Because news shows are cheaper to produce than entertainment fare, they are in demand at the networks. Four hours of news programming is now seen weekly in prime time. NBC will add another hour in January -- a half-hour version of Real Life with Jane Pauley and the investigative series Expose -- as well as an afternoon show hosted by Faith Daniels. CBS's America Tonight has joined the late-night schedule (though it will leave the air, at least temporarily, in late...
...most difficult environmental dilemmas arise when preserving the environment conflicts with economic self-interest--when it's cheaper to waste than to save. Fortunately, this is not one of those cases. Satisfactory free-market solutions to environmental problems are rare enough already; Harvard should not overlook the opportunity when it arises...
Marsh said she thinks the government should make cheaper housing options available to the homeless...
...avert such a disaster, the networks are looking for ways to reduce programming costs. Reality shows like NBC's Unsolved Mysteries and CBS's Top Cops are becoming more common, partly because they are cheaper to produce. Other cost-saving measures may be on the way: co-productions with overseas broadcasters, more live programming, and series that air more than once a week (an idea NBC flirted with for its new sitcom Parenthood). Meanwhile, the multipart mini-series, once a staple of the "sweeps" periods, has been virtually abandoned because of its exorbitant cost...
...egalitarian ideal, a society with more opportunities for those who wish to practice medicine, with cheaper health care for all and with a smaller gap between the incomes of doctors and the incomes of most other people (including nurses) would surely be more desirable than a society like the one we have now, except that 12% of the doctors are black and half are women...