Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game plan to get ABC back on top. Though Capital Cities Chairman Thomas Murphy is described as a man of old-fashioned values, an attitude that could influence the selection of shows, the company also has a strong tradition of not meddling in the program decisions or editorial content of its media properties. Says Murphy: "If you think I know enough about scripts that I'm going to make changes in network programming, you're crazy." Which means that except for the usual intrigues, double-dealing and airplanes falling from the sky, the Carringtons of Dynasty probably have nothing...
...result. I don't give a shit whether it's the strong dollar or what it is. At $123 billion we become a debtor nation of the worst order." More and more U.S. manufacturers, he fears, will build their factories abroad unless, for example, they are forced by domestic-content legislation to keep production Stateside. "And once they're invested," he says, "you can't pull them back. In the (capital) investment world, once you've done it, you've done it! A guy buys a Toyota, you can get him back three years from...
...take four years of (ABC White House Correspondent) Sam Donaldson. I just don't have the desire. I don't want to climb another mountain." Maybe not. But when Lia Iacocca, 20, is asked for a single word to describe her father, she does not first suggest "easygoing" or "content." Her word: "ambitious...
...support Gemayel and his government, have reinforced some of their military positions around the area controlled by the Christian insurgents. They are not eager for a battle, partly because they realize that a Syrian rescue of Gemayel could easily bring about his downfall. For the moment they are content to use pressure rather than force against the rebels in the hope that the threat to Gemayel's rule will recede...
...wishful thinking were the same: moderate, pragmatist, technocrat, sophisticate. Within a day of his selection, there was talk of an Andropov era, a phrase that suggested a clean and welcome break with the past. His style seemed fresh and that, it was assumed, connoted a change in the content of Soviet policy. Here was a Soviet leader who would be comfortable and stimulating on the Georgetown cocktail circuit, and who would therefore be equally easy to get along with at a summit...