Word: byronical
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...monopoly position and will be broken up. But the giant IBM has legally achieved its important position in the computer industry and will be allowed to continue in its present form. Last week's decisions will help strengthen competition in both the communications and computer industries. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by David Beckwith/Washington Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
...Kidder, Peabody: "It makes sense to get rid of the diversified businesses and hop back to being a communications company." The sale of C.I.T. or Hertz would also give RCA some badly needed cash to spend on expensive new ventures into satellite communications, cable programming and broadcasting. - By Christopher Byron Reported by Peter Stoler/New York
...lodgings there, to oversee his physical and spiritual health. She was a fierce evangelical Protestant, and her husband, a prosperous and essentially self-educated wine importer, was a worshiper of art. The minimum they expected of him, he commented later, was that he should "write poetry as good as Byron's only pious...
...poetry was bloodless, as his own acute critical sense told him, and his faith was in Art. His parents, with whom he often lived and traveled until he was middleaged, were disappointed that he was to be neither Byron nor the Bishop...
...shops, but Bogart Jackson's daddy inhabited the h alls of academe. Bogart Jackson was quick with a quip and a smile and would fit neatly in an ABC 30-second profile. Officials in crested blazers drooled at the prospect of Bogart Jackson trading wisecracks with Dave Marr or Byron Nelson or the writers. They pictured Bogart Jackson in a pink Izod t-shirt, navy polyester slacks, Spalding shoes, crunching the all-new dimple pattern off of Dunlop Max-Flis. "Bogart Jackson has angled his ball to within four feet of the cup, a remarkable effort here at Augusta," British...