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The Speaker of the House | The Golden Triangle | Drive-by Lawsuits

TV Flash files “The Speaker of the House | The Golden Triangle | Drive-by Lawsuits” as hour 446 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 49, episode 11, aired 2016-12-04, 60 min.

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This leaf is S49E11: listed hour 446 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 11 of 37 in season 49. It aired 2016-12-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Prime Minister | The Alzheimer's Laboratory” (S49E10). Next is “The New Columbia | Lost | Benjamin Netanyahu” (S49E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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The Speaker of the House - At odds during campaign, House Speaker Paul Ryan and President-elect Donald Trump are "fine" now and talk almost daily, Ryan tells Scott Pelley. The speaker of the House tells Scott Pelley he and President-elect Donald Trump have made up and speak on the phone nearly every day. On the campaign trail, the two were at odds. Speaker Ryan had called one of Trump's statements racist and Trump dismissed him as ineffective and disloyal, but Ryan says the two are not looking back and are already working together. The Golden Triangle - Job training and tax incentives are key to this economic developer's successful strategy to revive manufacturing jobs in Mississippi. Joe Max Higgins has attracted about 6,000 manufacturing jobs back to an area of Mississippi that lost thousands of them since the 1990s. He's done it by aggressively pursuing corporations with tax breaks, ready-to-build sites and other incentives. But a critical element of his strategy is to provide a jobs ready workforce trained in the "advanced manufacturing" skills new factories require. Drive-by Lawsuits - The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that every private business in the U.S. make their space accessible to disabled people. Some lawyers are filing thousands of lawsuits against businesses that often have no idea they've done anything wrong.

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S49E11 is listed hour 446 of 767 — hour 11 of 37 in season 49, season 49 episode 11.

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The Speaker of the House | The Golden Triangle | Drive-by Lawsuits aired 2016-12-04 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.

Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…

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