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410 · Hal's History of Television Before Subsidized Time
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incipient
beginning to develop
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Szechuan
alternate spelling of Sichuan
Sherman statutes
a reference to the anti-trust act introduced by Sen. John Sherman of Ohio (1823-1900)
TCI
Tele-Communications, Inc. (now defunct)
Malone
John C. Malone (born 1941), now CEO of Liberty Media
TBS
Turner Broadcasting System, founded by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born 1938)
CBC
Canadian Broadcasting Centre
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American Council of Disseminators of Cable
Look at the first letters of the capitalized words.
HDTV
High-Definition Television
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liposuction
a surgical procedure whereby fat is literally sucked out of the body
P.T.A.s
Parent-Teacher Associations
PACs
Political Action Committees
REM
Rapid Eye Movement
kabal
an alternate spelling of "cabal," meaning a small group of secret plotters
b&w
black and white
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Preparation H
a brand-name ointment for hemorrhoids
Überad
a super advertisement, using the German über ("super") as a prefix
MLB
Major League Baseball
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Ch. 11 protection
Chapter 11, a section of the bankruptcy code under which one could file for protection from creditors
Dow turned Grizzly
i.e., a bear (downward-moving) market environment began
'Happy Days'
a once-successful television series on ABC
penultimate
second-to-last
half-gainer
a type of dive
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ken
understanding
vox- and digitus-populi
Vox populi means "voice of the people" in Latin. Digitus populi would be "finger of the people."
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CPU
Central Processing Unit
tentacularly
as with tentacles
GTE
General Telephone and Electronics
Hobbesianly
in a way suggesting that people are very much in a state of nature, i.e., without rules or laws
!
Used in the 2 times the square root of area formula, the exclamation point denotes a factorial
mimetic
used here, meaning as close to reality as possible
equatorial
lying on the Equator
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mycological
regarding the study of mushrooms
ennui
boredom
Endnote 168
Wagnerian
in the style or manner of Richard Wagner, the German operatic composer
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