Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...issues of the fight were, in the end, less important than the tactics. In December, according to Time Warner, after months of negotiation, the two companies had come to a deal regarding the fees TW would pay to carry various Disney-owned channels on its cable systems and--most notably--to convert the Disney Channel from a premium service to basic cable. Disney negotiators deny they had got that far. And certainly after Time Warner announced its merger with America Online on Jan. 10, Disney didn't feel it had a deal. What it had then was leverage. Figuring that...
...Time Warner Cable didn't see that because the culture of Time Warner Inc., unlike that of Disney, is highly decentralized, giving the cable unit independence to focus almost solely on its bottom line. The cable guys are equal opportunity offenders, even inside Time Warner. No less a figure than vice chairman Ted Turner, the company's largest individual stockholder, has repeatedly complained about the cable division's unwillingness to carry Time Warner's own programming. Financial news network CNNfn is available in barely 60% of Time Warner homes. Sports network CNNSI is in far fewer, even while Disney-owned...
...bright to avoid being seen from Earth, the NRO's birds are hard to hide. And an international band of amateur astronomers has determined to find, track and webcast the location of all the members of this orbital fleet for anyone who cares to look--including such less than friendly sorts as Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong...
These facts are not new, of course, in part because other historians have responded to a furious anti-Lincoln article Bennett wrote for Ebony in 1968 by providing less heroic profiles of the 16th President. What's new is Bennett's emphasis. As he writes, even now some white scholars tend to consign the unflattering truth about Lincoln's racist ideals to "footnotes and asides." Glory rips off the cover. And yet, since it was published in February, Glory has been met with what Bennett calls a "conspiracy of silence." By last week not a word had appeared...
...Hanks asks. "Or is he just the same guy, with his vision altered five degrees, and those five degrees make all the difference in the world? It's a bad analogy, but what do you learn as a cancer survivor? You've learned life is precious. Maybe you eat less red meat. It's not like you glow with an otherworldly wisdom...