Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even supporters got nervous as Murdoch exploited permissive Australian accounting rules to run up $8 billion in corporate debt (vs. assets worth perhaps $20 billion), much of it short-term and in need of frequent refinancing. But Murdoch continued to insist to stockholders that "fortune does favor the brave." Says Steve Rattner, head of the media department at the investment bankers Lazard Freres: "Of all media moguls, Rupert has been the boldest. If Fox or Sky had crashed and burned, he would have burned too. He has an enormously strong constitution...
...fortune favors the brave, it can also favor the cunning and prudent. Faced with losses from Sky of nearly $4 million a week and beset by British Satellite Broadcasting, a well-financed but smaller competitor losing four times as much, Murdoch this month negotiated a merger ofthe rival TV ventures on highly favorable terms. The result: a virtually certain monopoly for the service, projected profit as early as 1992 and -- most important to fretful financial analysts -- an immediate $300 million improvement in the cash flow of News Corp., which has suffered an advertising slump in all its markets. Says media...
Students will be students. Passionate and idealistic, we will brave rain and snow to protest the latest administrative injustice. We will stamp our feet for a women's center and raise our fists for South African divestment. And so we should. Harvard just wouldn't be Harvard without...
...pioneering that brave and ambitious women have done, the female majority remains outside, earning 70 cents to the man's $1 in stereotypically female jobs. That female majority must still find a way to survive the uncaring institutions, the exploitative employers and the deep social inequities the successful few have not yet got around to challenging...
When I was a girl of ten, I was told to be brave and not to cry, that I'd be a big girl after the ordeal. But when I saw the half-blind old woman with her razor, I bolted. My mother and aunts held me down and spread open my legs. Suddenly, I felt excruciating pain. She sliced off my clitoris and now it lay in her gnarled hands. She then sliced my inner lips until there was nothing left. There was blood everywhere, but by now I felt no more pain, not even when she stuck...