Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later days as an independent producer, Zanuck has had no direct hand in Fox's fiscal affairs, being content to collect a $150,000-a-year fee as a "consultant." But he reminded all and sundry that he remains the studio's largest individual stockholder, with some 110,000 out of Fox's 2,500,000 outstanding shares. Skouras held some 98,000 more; together, and with sympathy from shareholders in the movie industry, Zanuck reasoned that they were ready for a proxy fight. A Zanuck-Skouras entente was fashioned by Attorney Louis (My Life in Court...
...system's first year in four Chicago apartment houses, it turned into what one avid viewer described as "the greatest indoor sport since chess." Not content simply to tune in when they themselves had visitors, most tenants were delightedly looking in fulltime at their neighbors...
...properties," usually identified by locale. "I just bought New Orleans," he told a friend after his Southern coup. Newhouse once had a chance to buy Israel's Jerusalem Post, but turned it down?thereby sparing his friends the observation, "I just bought Jerusalem." His properties are valued not by content but by readership. "It's a great paper," said Newhouse, after buying a minority interest in the Denver Post two years ago. "It has a circulation of 250,000." When he is moved to talk about the printed matter in his papers, Newhouse sounds like an atheist discussing the relative...
...therefore they do not resist the guerilla tactics of the Vietcong. Soliven warned that "You can pour money into South East Asia but if the people are not in favor of the government, money will be of no use in resisting the communists." The United States has been content to send billions of dollars to Vietnam, without gaining the loyalty of the people, he claimed...
...began with a brief introduction concerning the history of Arabic literature, showing how more traditional subject matter like Arabic poetry has affected some contemporary authors. He said that traditional Arabic poetry placed an emphasis on language in its verse and on society in its content, and it was not unitl the last thirty or forty years that Arabic literature began to cater to the individual and to experiment with new forms, such as the drama and the novel