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...matter how you do it, having a team to root for will give you a stake in the game, which gives you a reason to watch the game other than for the commercials...
...storm began over letters McCain wrote on behalf of Paxson Communications, one of the nation's largest broadcast groups, which wanted to buy a license to a Pittsburgh TV station. Paxson has a stake in 72 stations and 51 affiliates that carry its family-oriented programming. Pittsburgh is the one major metropolitan area where it had no broadcast presence. The license it sought was owned by a public-television station, WQED. Approval of the transfer was under consideration at the FCC for four years. Late last year Paxson executives gave and helped raise $20,000 for the McCain campaign. Soon...
...candidates have been boasting of their support among the young voters, though two Republicans, Steve Forbes and John McCain, have been particularly vocal about the extent of their college operations in their campaigns. The Republicans have more at stake in attracting young volunteers, campaign officials said...
...hands of a state court system where a judge potentially sympathetic to the Miami relatives could tie up the case for years," says Cohen. "The federal court system will resolve it as a matter of urgency given that a young boy's well-being is at stake...
...capitalization had been $163.4 billion, nearly double Time Warner's $83.3 billion. Levin acknowledged there had been some tough bargaining on valuation, given, as he delicately put it, "the way the market's behaving right now." And given - as AOL CEO Steve Case acknowledged, despite his company's superior stake in the market - that AOL would contribute only 20 percent of the new company's earnings in its first year. "AOL is something of a rarity in that it's an Internet company that actually makes a lot of money," says Saporito. "But Time Warner's approach is based...