Since then the satellite broadcaster has easily beaten off a string of attempts to force a break-up of its stranglehold on Premier League football – and its growth has been so rapid and relentless that Sky is already bigger than the BBC.
After winning a landslide re-election as governor of California, by a whopping 20 points, the 41-year old Brown audaciously set out to take down the president he'd beaten in a string of late presidential primaries in 1976.
After winning a landslide re-election as governor of California by a whopping 20 points, the 41-year old Brown set out to take down the president he'd beaten in a string of late presidential primaries in 1976.
Chris was taken from his alcoholic mother at eight, but not before getting beaten and abused by a string of "uncles".
A talented outside-left, a star of the 1960 FA Cup final for beaten Blackburn Rovers, and the manager of a string of Scottish clubs, it was the misfortune of Ally MacLeod, who has died aged 72, to be remembered, above all, for the anticlimax of the 1978 World Cup finals in Argentina, when Scotland fell out in the first round.
The challenge has been partly beaten back, thanks to the bravery of a string of dedicated and hard-working magistrates in Palermo.
Mexican workers in Farmingville were beaten and murdered by white vigilantes in a string of hate crimes that gradually spread across the county.
A prominent Ukrainian civic activist and journalist was brutally beaten outside Kiev on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks on activists and opposition members amid weeks of protests calling for the removal of president Viktor Yanukovych and his cabinet.
He made a string of saves before being beaten by Rickie Lambert, who fired in low from the edge of the box.
And he goes off the beaten path," said Thomas Buy, 37, who said he had a string of beauty salons in the Lyon area.
