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...Robertses' dismay, the merger with CBS would have sliced Comcast's 15% stake in QVC to 4.9% of the new company; even though the Robertses would have profited handsomely from the deal, it would have left them with little voice in the fate of the shopping network they had nurtured. Moreover, regulations limiting cross-ownership would have kept Comcast, the nation's third largest cable-TV operator with revenues of $1.3 billion, from ever taking a seat on the merged company's board or increasing its holdings beyond 5%. "We were open with Barry about our predicament because of government...
...words of the Pentagon, they would rather not ask and they would rather that gays didn't tell. When confronted with the likelihood that at least some of their children, or those of relatives or close friends, will grow up gay, even liberal parents recoil in dismay. Verline Freeman, 31, a word processor in New York City, describes herself as "tolerant" and says she has gay friends. Yet she objects to her sons, 13 and 6, being taught about homosexuality in school, and has never discussed it at home. "It probably is important...
...dismay it was the....reason that got the most coverage by the media," Schreiber says "Most of the newspaper articles and wire services focused on using this molecule as a cockroach sex attractant...
...years, professors and administrators have promised to take action to demonstrate Harvard's opposition to the military's ban on homosexuals. In 1990, they declared the gay ban inconsistent with Harvard's own non-discrimination policy. As a sign of their dismay, they vowed to sever all ties with ROTC within two years if the gay ban remained in place...
When CBS executives learned of the deal, they were flabbergasted. "What are you doing?" cried affiliate chief Anthony Malara when Bevins broke the news on the phone. Malara's dismay was justified: CBS will lose important affiliates in eight cities and will have to scramble to find new stations to replace them. The options aren't very appealing. In each market, CBS could simply team up with the newly discarded Fox station. But that would mean being relegated to a UHF channel, a humiliating comedown for the No. 1-rated network. Or CBS could try to wrest away a current...