Word: ascends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steep price (about a 35% loss on the original investment, owing mostly to the weakness of the dollar vs. the yen). And Bronfman, the wandering son who officially took over the family business only last year, will invest his shareholders' money so he can realize his dream. He will ascend from mere billionaire status to a more glamorous title: moviemaker...
...predict whether any of these local leaders will eventually ascend to the national stage or whether that kind of leadership -- on the grand scale ! -- has become impossible. One can only cite the hopeful example of Regina Benjamin, a rural physician whose rather modest original goal was to help solve the local doctor shortage in poverty-stricken Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Practicing there for a while convinced her of the need to know something about business. While earning her M.B.A. at Tulane University, she unearthed an obscure federal rule that would provide government money to qualified rural health clinics. Suddenly...
Those who argue that Katzenberg, 43, should ascend to help Eisner make these decisions point to his track record. As chairman of the company's flourishing studio enterprises, which account for 43% of its gross revenue, he finds himself atop the hottest movie of the year and perhaps the most profitable in history (The Lion King), the No. 1 television show (Home Improvement) and the No. 1 Broadway production (Beauty and the Beast). "Pick up the recent edition of the annual report," says a Katzenberg friend. "You'll see Michael Eisner's picture on page 2. Where's Jeffrey...
...that Alek (according to my niece, a Harvard student), graduated summa cum laude. You preferred to focus on irrelevant nonsense such as his asthmatic difficulties and likening him to the pathetic Tonya Harding. You also took a cheap shot at him by referring to how he is angling to ascend in Hollywood...
...first scene; while everything was enveloped by darkness at the commencement of the movie, and industry was the only thing visible, at the end the sun is bright and spring burgeons on screen, nature budding everywhere. From the contrast, one might assume that the characters of the film ascend from the depths of despair to at least a moderate altitude of happiness. On the contrary--what the audience undergoes could only be positively construed as tragic catharsis, where multitudes perish for the audience's emotional benefit...