Word: acquirees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Winning might not be much better. Although the entertainment business often makes deals that seem right out of Fantasyland, the money that ABC, CBS and Fox are paying demonstrates just how desperate the network-television business has become. CBS paid $4 billion to get back in the game, intercepting rights...
Yu hahk saeng. With the economic crisis in South Korea, this word for "overseas student"--formerly a positive connotation--has started to acquire distinctly ambiguous overtones for South Korean students at Harvard.
What's remarkable is how many people, upon closer examination, turn out to have gone much further, fabricating stories to include wars they did not fight, degrees they did not acquire, events that did not happen, even defining moments they did not have. Last Thursday the body of former U.S...
Holub is less successful when he turns his hand to overt political commentary. The heading of the book's second section, "Trouble on Spaceship Earth," sounds like the title of a Discovery Channel special, and the subject matter is suspiciously similar. When Holub dispenses unqualified environmental advice and chastises trendy...
Yet it's his record as a "real world" businessman that he claims makes him appealing as a prospective Governor. Fresh from Harvard's M.B.A. program (where he sported hair down to his shoulders), the twentysomething Checchi rose quickly through the ranks at Marriott by arranging clever financing for hotel...