Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enter Fox. That three-letter nickname may one day be as familiar to TV viewers as ABC, CBS and NBC. Right now it is short for Fox Broadcasting Co., the most ambitious effort yet to create a full-fledged fourth network. Financed by Australian-born Press Baron Rupert Murdoch (who in 1985 added 20th Century-Fox studios and the Metromedia chain of independent TV stations to his worldwide media holdings), Fox made its first foray into national programming in October with The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. Though Rivers' ratings in the battle against Johnny Carson have been disappointing...
...site has been linked to this disorder. The earlier work, based on studies of Amish families, found a manic depression marker on chromosome 11. The discoveries of two separate genetic defects that can lead to the same disease "aren't necessarily contradictory but complement each other," says Dr. Miron Baron, who headed the team. "Together they support the belief that manic depression is a group of disorders with common symptoms rather than a single entity...
...Benson 45 0 20 20 34 76 Scott Dub 44 11 8 19 34 79 Russ Parent 45 2 16 18 21 50 Mike LaMoine 45 2 16 18 18 36 Brent Bobyck 44 6 11 17 8 16 Grant Paranica 40 5 10 15 18 36 Murray Baron 39 3 10 13 30 60 Jeff Bowen 43 5 7 12 17 42 Tarek Howard 32 1 9 10 19 38 Bill Claviter 20 2 2 4 5 10 Darryn Fossand 14 1 2 3 4 8 Ed Belfour 32 0 2 2 3 6 Gary Kaiser...
...well-developed standard for judging the culpability of fiction; libel rulings have been concerned mostly with news reports. Real people have served as models for fictional characters, from Proust's Baron Charlus to Bellow's Humboldt. An author's weave of truth and invention is difficult to unravel, and never more so than in a semiautobiographical work like The Bell Jar, which was first published in Britain in 1963, just a month before Plath committed suicide. The story of a young woman's descent into madness spoke to the rising women's movement as well as the romantic instincts...
Several rent control activists who attended themeeting said the Board should have advocated legalaction against Baron...