Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name Barry Diller--to turn things around. But meanwhile the losses keep on mounting: $85 million in the last fiscal year, $12.4 million in the last quarter for which there are figures. So what does this desperate tycoon do? He sells half the shop to an Australian press baron, whose very name, Rupert Murdoch, causes grown men to shiver with fear and occasionally loathing. The studio is saved...
...best of the new business games are three fast-paced simulation programs that re-create the stock, real estate and commodities markets: Blue Chip Software's Millionaire, Baron and Tycoon. For $60 each, these startlingly realistic games let players dip their feet into the volatile market for stock options or pork-belly futures--without having to take a bath...
...Navigator, is a giant walrus-like creature that rules the universe while floating inside a liquid cage. The Harkonnens are the comic villains of the piece. These red-haired nasties with a taste for drinking human blood and baroquely torturing farm animals are led by the pustulous, airborne Baron Vladimir (Kenneth McMillan) and his aide-de-camp Feyd (the rock star Sting), in gold-leaf bathing suit resplendent. The Guild Spokesman, an imperial messenger, has a bald head cracked on one side and oozing like a soft-boiled egg. Then there are the 1,000-ft. worms of Arrakis...
...title of muckrakers, but it was Ida Tarbell who perfected the technique. Her father, a minor Pennsylvania oil driller, was nearly ruined by John D. Rockefeller. Twenty years later she settled the score with her scathing 1904 History of the Standard Oil Company, which described some of the robber baron's sharper practices and led eventually to the dismantling of his empire. But as Kathleen Brady, a TIME reporter-researcher, points out in a graceful new biography, the scourge of Big Business was not always bent on vengeance. Most of the time she was a stiff-backed, old-fashioned...
...believe that will happen, largely because of the lessons those outside labor may learn from Mondale's 1984 defeat. "Future candidates would be crazy to go after a labor endorsement before the primaries," says William Schneider, an elections expert at the American Enterprise Institute. Concurs Analyst Baron: "Labor has clearly reduced its clout in the party in the future. A lot of state chairmen who were skeptical, but went along, are now saying, 'We won't let them do that to us again.' " -By Susan Tifft. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington, with other bureaus