Word: host
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...when he died last week, at 78, it was apparent that of all the pioneers of TV's first generation, Allen remains the most relevant, one of the half-dozen indispensable people in the medium's history. When he became host of a new late-night broadcast on NBC called the Tonight show in 1953, he was a revolutionary. The infant medium was still feeling its way, adapting the formats of radio and vaudeville and the Broadway stage. Allen, who had honed his skills in local radio and TV, seemed to understand the medium in a new way. He relaxed...
...recording industry--the same industry that thought the CD was a bad idea--bitterly opposed all this socialist sharing going on and they slapped Napster with the mother of all lawsuits. Because Napster doesn't host song files, it merely facilitates their transmission, Napster had a pretty strong case. But an unsympathetic judge and the prospect of being tied up in court until the Class of '04 graduates made them want to deal. Bertelsmann, recognizing that in the future, music will be downloaded whether they want it to be or not and, knowing that a recording industry not known...
Members of the men's hockey team, have the next officially scheduled game at Bright Arena this Friday against the University of Vermont. The men's hockey team is also scheduled to host Dartmouth on Saturday...
...President Hugo Chavez Frias [BUSINESS, Oct. 9], noted his seemingly contradictory characteristics, but they are what make him a unique leader. His refusal to allow U.S. military planes to fly over his country and his turning down U.S. emergency aid make him seem like an antiglobalist. But his playing host to the OPEC summit showed he is an outward-looking individual who does not always say yes to anything or anyone. ERIK B. DAYRIT Quezon City, the Philippines...
...winter-spring rally due anyway, at which point the markets and the economy have to take a deep breath and figure out what they're going to do next. But with eight years of boom in the rearview, it's a good bet that the next four will be host to some rocky sailing. Set aside the worst-case scenarios - Bush, dispensing tax breaks to the highest bidder, rides the prosperity into the ground, whooping like Slim Pickens; Gore, horrified at the thought of making money from human and environmental suffering, chokes the economy with regulation - and there's still...