Word: networker
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...week faces the shutdown of its subway, bus and commuter rail service. The paradox presents an object lesson in the venal intricacies of Massachusetts politics; it represents as well an opportunity too good to miss for the transformation of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) into a stable transit network...
...five years. Until recently, watching morning television was for many people like drinking before noon: if you did it, you certainly did not brag about it. Now many more people seem to be sneaking a glance-ABC estimates the average viewer watches 2.0 minutes-at one of the network shows to find out what happened during the night, learn how to guard against heart attacks and prevent wrinkles, hear the latest gossip from Hollywood and receive instructions on how to manage a household in the perilous...
Enter Good Morning America. ABC, which had suddenly determined to become a big-league network in the mid-'70s, wanted the prestige of a morning show and assigned producer Bob Shanks to come up with a formula. Shanks' solution: copy the original Today of the '50s. When Good Morning began in 1975, it was more like Today, as Weaver had envisioned it, than Today. There was news, of course, but not much. Catering to its largely female audience (66%, vs. 55% for Today and 47% for Morning), the show set out to provide women with advice...
Since Hartman was the key to that success, the network even tried to clone him. NBC executives quietly approached another actor, Alan Alda of MASH, to see if he would like to replace Brokaw. Alda was flattered but said...
...number of entrepreneurs specialize in returning old models to pristine condition. J. Orion Brunk, founder of Beverly Hills Mustang, Ltd., has an eight-week waiting list of buyers. A network of sleuths buy old Mustangs and parts for Brunk, and he has an agreement with Racing Car Designer Carroll Shelby to turn old 1966 models into souped-up Shelby Mustangs. Price of the new Shelbys: $40,000. Detroit cannot keep its hands off a winner, though, and the classic Mustang died after 1968-of obesity. Ford gradually fattened the car, boosting its size, adding 584 Ibs. to its weight...