Word: berte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scandal is the coin of contemporary celebrity; it keeps the public interested. It makes Miss America a current affair. Funny how people have really cared about the pageant's politics: in 1945 the naming of the first Jewish Miss America, Bess Myerson; in 1979 the dumping of Bert Parks, the show's emcee for 25 years; in 1984 the dethroning of Vanessa Williams, the first winner of color, after sexually provocative photos surfaced. Race, creed, age, all have clouded the show. But like the winner at the moment of coronation--brandishing a mile-wide smile as she sobs...
...customers must do their part. "Banking is no different than any other service," notes Bert Ely, a bank consultant in Alexandria, Virginia. "You have to shop around, find good deals and be ready to switch if necessary." Bigger does not have to be badder as long as consumers put their money where it works best...
...billion, it began looking for a partner to transform its worldwide phone network into pathways for "content"-whatever a computer or TV screen can receive, from info-services to movies. "You can hardly think of content without the name of Rupert Murdoch coming to the fore," says MCI chairman Bert Roberts...
...listen to the Republicans talk about it, the possible eradication of CPB is not an attack on Bert and Ernie but rather an assault on a liberal propaganda machine that has no right to receive federal funding...
...Bert I. Huang '96, chair of the IOP Student Advisory Committee, said the committee is currently conducting interviews. But he added that the candidates requested that no information be released until the final announcement...