The large reservoirs of the Mainstem System help provide a dependable flow to maintain the navigation channel year-round, and are capable of halting most of the river's annual freshets.
As sober as a jarring thought, Indiana's Bob Knight once hurled a chair across a court, only to have his flammable persona channeled years later by his Hoosier successor, Mike Davis, in December.
The March on Washington channeled years of disciplined, nonviolent action in communities across the South.
Courtesy of one of the news channels' year-in-review packages, Mabena had seen old footage from early 2011 showing Mandela being hospitalized for respiratory problems.
"Almost all the pundits on this channel for years have been against higher taxes, right?" Bregman said.
LAS VEGAS — When ESPN announced a high-definition channel nine years ago, its executives barely knew about the Consumer Electronics Association.
HBO received six nominations in 1988, the first year cable channels were eligible to compete for the Emmy awards, and won three; it did not take the channel 25 years to get its first nomination.
He joined the Weather Channel 15 years ago, after graduating from Lyndon State College in Lyndonville, Vt., with a bachelor's degree in meteorology.
Its chief executive is Geraldine Laybourne, who was chairman of Nickelodeon during that channel's years of enormous growth, followed by a less successful stint as president of Disney Cable.
Even HBO Asia, the region's most popular movie channel, is years from getting its total investment back.
