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NBC's tabloidy Dateline , already on four times a week, is called "as close to local TV news as anything the networks have yet come up with" (Richard Zoglin, Time ). Meanwhile, a highly praised PBS documentary about 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt prompts critics to note that show's downfall as well.
That's why I often discount all the stories that predict AOL's downfall.
Having successfully and rather strenuously dodged prosecution himself, Nixon had volunteered to walk into a courtroom and testify to help someone he believed had triggered his own downfall.
Garry claims that the second game was the one that led to his downfall, and almost accused IBM of cheating.
In the end it was the very rigidity of their unshared control of the country that brought about the downfall of the Tokugawa.