Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merger will restore Time Warner's mantle as the world's largest media company. Time Warner will be an $11.5 billion behemoth controlling a vast array of content, including Warner Bros. movies and TV shows, Warner Music, cable channels (such as HBO) and magazines (like this one), as well as Turner's cable channels (including CNN, TBS and the Cartoon Network) and mini-movie studios. As the country's second largest cable provider, Time Warner also owns the delivery truck for much of this content...
...kind of movie out there known as the "special-effects flick"--this much scientists have confirmed. Some become sci-fi epics, a la "Terminator 2"; others are fun-filled fantasies, such as good ol' Roger Rabbit's tale. Yet a special few are so wretched, so abominable, so unpardonably content-less that one hesitates even to say their names again for fear of incurring the wrath of the Gods of Good Taste. The Michael J. Fox debacle falls into the last category...
...this decision Lamm is rearranging his life on short notice and going against the counsel of his political advisers and his wife, an active Democrat who has backed Bill Clinton. Says Lamm: "I'm rolling some pretty high dice on the premise that Perot is sincere." Perot meanwhile was content to let Lamm have the stage to himself--at least for the moment. Perot spent last week on vacation with his family in Bermuda, where gambling is illegal and U.S. politics seems distant...
...head in early April as Yeltsin prepared to give a speech unveiling his campaign program. That address was expected to signal the campaign's substance and tone, and it became a major battleground for control of the campaign. In a nine-point memo dated April 2 that covered content, theme and staging, the team wrote that the "overall goal of the kickoff speech [should be] to demonstrate to the average Russian that Yeltsin understands the suffering the country has been going through...The President will be talking to people in their homes through their TV sets. These average people...
...lack of oxygen. Now the mainstream media strive to get every sensational rumor "in play" without being held responsible. The classic gambit is to print a rumor by way of criticizing the tabloids for running it. The new laundering device is hardcovers. Then, no matter how outlandish the content or how biased the publisher, you can cower behind "I read it in a book...