Its sports chairman Dick Ebersol said the network was deemphasizing feature coverage, a veiled slight at the way ABC used to cover the Olympics, back when the Cold War provided some of the story line.
The richly detailed drama, which opened Monday night at Lincoln Center, is set in the spring of 1948, when the Cold War between former World War II allies America and the Soviet Union is under way.
The cuts in hardware that began when the cold war ended are likely to continue.
Strongly influenced behind the scenes by the Crown family of Chicago, which owned a controlling block of shares, the company sold off most of its military businesses when the Cold War ended in the biggest fire sale the defense sector had ever seen.
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However, all of these trends began to break down when the Cold War ended.
Lord knows when the cold wind blows, it'll turn my head around.
When the weather turns cold, the stinkers wriggle into homes through air conditioners and other tiny spaces, hibernating in packs.
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When the Cold War ended, Raytheon was a conglomerate producing everything from business jets to microwave ovens to college textbooks.
But when the cold calculus of logic is swapped out for the gut-sense of intuition, this is the implicit system at work.
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And when the Cold War started, the Soviets said they were going to set up a base at the South Pole, so the U.S. rushed there first.
The bat-winged B-2, for instance, saw its production goal slashed from 132 planes to a mere 21 when the Cold War ended, amidst widespread complaints about its billion-dollar price-tag.
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This should have been done nearly a decade ago, when the Cold War ended, the Soviet Union broke up into 15 new nations and Czechoslovakia split itself into two countries.
When the Cold War ended, the top tier of the sector consolidated into a handful of military conglomerates that do business with all the military services in both hardware and services.
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When the Cold War ended the service had well over 500 vessels in the active fleet, but that number dwindled to less than 400 during the 1990s and less than 300 in the decade just ended.
There was a brief thaw in relations when the Cold War ended, because with the Red Navy gone the U.S. Navy needed to highlight its relevance to fighting ashore, but the more common pattern is for the Navy to constantly question the requirement for Marine assets like vertical-takeoff jets and maritime prepositioning ships (which store warfighting supplies in likely areas of conflict).
"It's like when the hot and cold come together in the sky you get thunder, " he said.
Given the different contractions of the two different metals as a result of the cold, when it gets cold enough iron cannonballs will fall off a brass monkey.
Here are a few tips to shop your closet, make old things new again, and renew your excitement for getting dressed in the morning, once you have gotten past the fact that getting out of bed requires getting over the shock to the system when your feet hit the cold floor.
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They tell of repeated alternations between warm periods when the pass was useable and cold periods when it was shut by the ice.
When the economy takes a cold shower, the velocity of money slows to a crawl.
But when the barn is too cold, I move the dining table in the living room and juggle.
When the declaration was drafted, the cold war had already begun to blight post-war hopes that international co-operation would prevail over great-power rivalry.
Kennedy and Ronald Reagan when the divided city was in the Cold War frontline -- could only have been made in the German capital.
When the water gets cold, from December to March, many head south again, fattening up on bluefish, menhaden and squid near shipwrecks off Hatteras Island and Morehead City.
Families with school-age kids often go away over the summer, and retired folks from the north like to head for warmer climes when the weather gets cold.
But it also demanded the very best of our people -- the highest level of creativity, dedication, teamwork, analysis, and just sheer, dogged determination to never give up when the trail went cold.
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Russia was alarmed when the US withdrew from another Cold War agreement - the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - in 2001.
There was a time after the end of the Cold War when Russia's moribund navy never ventured into the Mediterranean and its foreign policy ambitions were greatly curtailed.
Mr Saakashvili had to tread carefully in Ajaria because of a sprawling ex-Soviet base near Batumi, a legacy of the days when this was a cold-war frontier between the Red Army and Turkey, a NATO member.
When the Arctic Oscillation turns negative, that is, when the winds weaken, the cold air normally trapped around the North Pole surges south.
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