Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make matters dicier, a merger would also bring Malone, the chairman of Tele-Communications Inc. and a man with a bent for elaborate corporate schemes, into Time Warner's fractious family. Malone, who stands to convert the 21% of Turner stock he controls into about a 9% stake in Time Warner, strung out the talks with a long and changing list of demands that threatened to block an agreement. "He asks for everything," says a Time Warner executive. "You never know when he's finished." Levin and Malone hashed out their main differences at a Sept. 9 meeting...
...PUCC's decidedly liberal bent may swing well with a majority of students, but it at once alienates and enrages legitimate conservative groups and individuals on campus. Pushing one partisan agenda or another is no way to secure representative legitimacy in the eyes of the campus as a whole...
Those interests have a decidedly liberal bent, PUCC leaders...
...Larry King Live again this week and has a penchant for hogging the limelight, Perot insists his sole duty in Dallas is to act as host to the visiting luminaries, all of whom he will introduce before they appear at the podium. Furthermore, he no longer appears hell-bent on running for President, and is not going to form an actual third party...
...psychiatrists recommended that she be hospitalized for depression. Her mother and stepfather refused, and if we find it "unthinkable" that a mother could kill her own children, it is not a whole lot less unthinkable that a mother could reject a chance to help a child bent on killing herself...