Word: expanding
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Charren is also concerned about the channel's expanding commercial ventures. Nickelodeon did not even run commercials before 1984; now it has entered the syndication market and is licensing its name for products ranging from shampoo to sneakers. "We are a channel for kids and an advocate for kids first," says Laybourne. "The licensing is only an afterthought." Such ventures, moreover, enable the channel to prosper and expand its programming -- a fact of TV life that Nickelodeon's savvy young viewers would certainly understand. Call it: Why You Can Do That on Television...
...three years ago, stunned the opera world last month when he announced he would return to his first love, the ad game, in April. Levine, 45, has been at the Met practically since puberty and lately has been making valedictory noises; it is no secret that he wishes to expand his European activities and that Herbert von Karajan's twin jobs as head of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Salzburg Festival would suit him just fine. The Met, already scrambling for a new general manager, could eventually be shopping for a new music director as well...
Feminists concerned with preventing discrimination against women should expand their goals to include women who face the double challenge of being women in a male-oriented society and dealing with a disability, disabled advocate Marsha Saxton said in a talk last night...
...Harvard University has definitely decided to expand its real estate holdings in Harvard Square and has embarked on a major effort to acquire buildings," HSDF President Gladys P. Gifford said...
...maintaining an erection, researchers explain. When a man is sexually aroused, stimulated nerves trigger a chemical reaction that causes the corpora cavernosa, two rod-shaped bundles of spongy muscle that run along each side of the penis, to relax and draw in extra blood. As the chambers fill, they expand, pressing shut veins that normally drain blood from the organ. With blood coming in and none going out, the penis becomes rigid and erect...