Word: basic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claimed that the army does not dispute the basic premise of the article--that there was an attempted coup in December 1998. Army officials simply want the names of those who anonymously leaked the information to the press, he said...
...change students have requested--lower fees for the basic local calling plan--was a issue the task force didn't tackle...
...before a controversial ouster in 1996 and who knows Karmazin. "They're both devoted to the business--it's about 99% of their lives. They're just going to have to work out the yins and yangs." Says Viacom Entertainment Group chairman Jonathan Dolgen: "They share the same basic work ethic, which is: There are only seven workdays in the week...
...done now?" he asks rhetorically. "I can't see any deal on the horizon that approaches the implications for future growth at Viacom [that the] CBS [deal does]. But, of course, nothing is certain." That's the same basic message that Redstone, Viacom's CEO and controlling shareholder, delivered in the wake of his $10 billion acquisition of Paramount Communications in 1994--a stunning deal in its day, one that kept Redstone busy for the next four years selling pieces of Martin Davis' empire to pay down a heaping pile of debt. Last year, when I spoke with Redstone...
Columbine High, where social-outcast status turned to murderous outrage, didn't create these series, but it lent them urgency, focusing as each does on that basic high school and Hollywood concern: popularity. Set in America's laboratories of tyranny, empathizing with misfits, the shows purvey the myth that much as there were suddenly no Nazis in Germany after V-E day, there are now apparently almost no former popular high school kids. "I very much identified myself as an outsider [in high school]," says Katims. "I was king of the geeks," says Manchester Prep creator Roger Kumble. "I totally...