Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ILFC ordered 78 737s, nine 757s, nine 767s and four 747s for $3.7 billion. Europe's Airbus, which has been making inroads in the U.S. market, expressed satisfaction with its $1.3 billion share of the ILFC contract. The only real loser was St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas. It too bid for the order, but came away with nothing...
...successfully launching TV's first 24-hour news channel, the Cable News Network. In the mid-'80s, however, the cable industry hit a slump, and so did Turner. His 1984 attempt to start a music- video channel died after just a month on the air, his much publicized bid to take over CBS was an expensive fizzle, and his acquisition of MGM left the Turner Broadcasting System so debt ridden that it was forced to get a bailout from a group of cable companies...
Meanwhile, cable networks are bidding aggressively against their broadcast rivals for programming. Syndicated reruns of such current network hits as Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey and Murder, She Wrote have been sold to cable rather than broadcast stations, as would have been the case five or ten years ago. Cable has also been on the offensive in the sports arena. ESPN last year brought National Football League games to cable for the first time, buying a package of 39 contests over three years. ESPN's eight regular-season NFL telecasts last fall garnered the all-sports network its highest ratings ever...
When Helms ran for the Senate in 1972, he showed both his political savvy and his genius for raising money, pioneering direct-mail solicitations and founding a fund-raising apparatus that became one of the most formidable in the nation. In his 1984 bid for a third term, Helms spent $18 million on the most expensive Senate campaign ever, yet he defeated former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt by a scant...
...Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law is not concerned with abstract values but instead reflects social and economic trends. Frug, Kennedy and Tribe were outspoken in their support of CLS adherent Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton's unsuccessful tenure bid. Clark has been one of the most vocal opponents of CLS at the Law School...