Word: dismemberment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In New York, Financier Ivan Boesky was rumored last week to have bought 7% to 8% of CBS for $240 million. The purchase did not mean that Boesky was gunning for the network, but it did put him in a good position to profit handsomely from any CBS takeover attempt...
While standing on his own record as a legislator who brings home the bacon for New Hampshire. D'Amours has tried to dismember Humphrey's reputation as a "skinflint" (D'Amours himself refuses junkets and pay raises voted by Congress). Last week the Democrat claimed that Humphrey, in his position...
"They were going to kill me in the bathtub," Kim says. "They were going to dismember my body but failed because of the appearance of a relative." The agents took him on a boat where Kim says they had bound his arms and legs, and were preparing to throw him...
Spiegelman points to a disturbingly plausible reason the media attempts to dismember, discredit and distort anti-militarist politics "The major mass media are intimately linked to the military-industrial-banking-complex, which has every thing to lose it as Brecht put it in Mother Courage, 'peace breaks out "'Morgan Guaranty...
"The Soviets will probably want to follow a policy of divide and conquer," Pipes said, adding that they will attempt to "dismember" the country rather than crush it directly.