Word: bring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fight, rather than a journalist going into an interview. Howard Rosenberg, a producer from CBS's Washington bureau, played Bush. "We knew it was going to be a brawl," says Cohen. "We prepared with that expectation." In the last of the three rehearsals, Rather was warned that Bush might bring up what Rather calls "the Miami thing," the blackout last September when a bristling Rather stomped off the Evening News set to protest CBS's decision to allow the U.S. Open tennis match to cut into the broadcast...
Television now and then manages that sort of effect, metaphysical and banal at the same time. It can make demigods of the weightless, and bring the hallucination of their fighting into the bright box in the corner of the room. / Warriors come luminously out of the night air and perform pageants in the brain...
Thus while Mubarak's visit produced no tangible results, it did bring some activity and discussion to the long-dormant peace process. Where that might lead remained to be seen, but U.S. officials were not optimistic. Said a State Department analyst: "We can cajole and we can encourage, but the major players have to get together and decide that they want to talk. So far, we just don't see any evidence that there is a will to do that...
...billion last year, mainly because of its $3 billion payout to settle an epic takeover dispute with Pennzoil. Yet Texaco's loss might have been far larger had it not agreed to a compromise settlement of Pennzoil's $10.3 billion claim -- a break in the stalemate that Icahn helped bring about. Now Icahn is locked in a struggle with Texaco's management over how to restructure the company and bring it back from bankruptcy. Observes Paul Tierney, a founder of Coniston Partners, a New York City takeover firm: "When Carl goes after something, you can be pretty certain...
Lacroix's billowing nostalgia envelops his own past. Not for nothing did he want to bring the sun and the sea right into his salon. His imagination is almost defiantly rooted in Arles and the rough Camargue area nearby. "I'm crazy about terra-cotta floors, primitive people, sun and rough times," he says. "This is my real side -- goat cheese and bread, elementary things." He warms to his subject. "I suppose that I am really double-faced. I am fascinated by Paris, its elegance, its women, even its artificiality; but with my heart and skin I love the South...