Word: berte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studio boss acknowledges being "mindful" of a desire to do a film with Travolta when Fields' request crossed his desk. "When I get a letter from Bert Fields, right or wrong, I give it more credence," he says. "Should I have spent more time on it? Maybe. But if there is persecution in the world, isn't that a bad thing?" Several others maintain they signed to pose the same question. "If you asked me, do I know a great deal about Scientology, I do not," acknowledges former MCA president Sid Sheinberg. "But I don't think I have...
...executive who declined to participate is Joe Roth, chairman of the Disney studios, which did well with the Travolta film Phenomenon. "Bert made it less about [Scientology] and more about connecting to feelings about the Holocaust," says Roth. "Either that, or they're all whores for Tom Cruise and John Travolta, and they wanted to be on the right list...
...offering by language guru and Lecturer on Linguistics Bert R. Vaux, Linguistics 80 is a survey of varieties of ancient and modern English--from Australian to "Valley Girl," Creole to Yiddish English...
...with the problem of expert witnesses who champion theories not accepted--and sometimes hotly contested--by the majority of scientists in their field. Breast-implant suits, for example, have produced a brand-new affliction, "atypical connective-tissue disease," that has as yet no formal medical standing. Argues Dallas attorney Bert Black, who heads the American Bar Association's section on science and technology: "One should not force companies to pay out millions of dollars and drive useful products off the market on the basis of a disease that isn't even a hypothesis yet." But University of Iowa law professor...
...about $21 billion for the 80% of MCI it does not already own. The merged company, to be called Concert, taking the name of a joint venture between the two, would have $42 billion in revenues and match AT&T in market value. The new colossus, boasts MCI chairman Bert Roberts, "will trump the competition as we open up communications markets both domestically and around the world...