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...SCTV, says Alexander, began as a defensive response to SNL, under the assumption that other networks would follow NBC's lead, launching sketch-comedy shows of their own and draining Second City's talent. But by 1983, SCTV had won two Emmy Awards for outstanding writing (1982 and 1983) and was being broadcast in the U.S. on NBC; it was canceled in 1984, after eight seasons...
...course. Pfoho had just won the House Survey Life competition with a 90.7 completion percent, narrowly beating out Kirkland’s 90.2 percent. If exactly two more Kirkland students had completed the survey…well, this might have been a very different sort of night in Pfoho...
...raising all the capital to pay back TARP won't improve Citi's balance sheet either. In fact, it will do the opposite. Bove estimates that TARP repayment will lower the company's Tier 1 capital ratio to just over 11%, from a recent 12.8%. What's more, with the elimination of the government guarantee of Citi's riskiest assets, which could expose the bank to as much as $250 billion in additional losses, the bank's Tier 1 ratio will sink further, to 10%, according to Hensler. (See 10 big recession surprises...
...Won a seat on the Houston City Council in 1997 on her third try, becoming Houston's first openly gay elected official. Won her bid to be city controller - the No. 2 elected position - in 2003, and ran unopposed for re-election in 2005 and 2007. (Read "What's All That Secession Ruckus in Texas...
...group Secours Catholique won permission to begin setting up a center to care for the most vulnerable aliens who stayed in Calais after the Sept. 22 operation. The approval didn't come easy. With more than half of the nearly 1,000 refugees who occupied the camp relocated elsewhere, Calais city officials fought efforts by Secours Catholique and other aid groups to set up any services for the remainder for fear that even minimal aid could swell illegals' numbers again. Secours Catholique not only had to win a November court case to overcome the refusal of Calais authorities but also...