Word: divestment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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True belief led us to the Cuban missile crisis, while the post-Watergate era allows us to divest emotionally from our government so it can do important work on campaign-finance reform. And skepticism without irony is totally unfun. It leads to folk songs...
Certainly there are other potential pitfalls for this deal, including considerable regulatory hurdles. Under current law, one company can't own two networks. That might cause Viacom to divest its half-share of the struggling UPN. Turf battles will arise between the bosses who head the various jewels in the Viacom empire, as well as in areas in which there are duplicate functions--the new company has three syndication arms, as well as three prime-time television-show suppliers...
...troops were moving out of Vietnam, and women were moving into the River Houses. Some students demanded that Harvard divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation, while others just wanted the equal athletic facilities guaranteed by the recently passed Title...
...black students from the Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee, two activist groups, took over Mass. Hall and demanded that the University divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation in protest of the company's practices in Angola. John, who was one of the protestors inside the building, says the takeover resulted from students' unsuccessful meetings with stockholders to discuss concerns...
...course, AT&T owned the last mile back before it was even called the last mile. But that monopoly was broken up by regulators in 1984, forcing the company to divest the Baby Bells--and pay them access fees to use their lines. "If you have to go through your competitors, then how can you be effective in satisfying your customers?" Armstrong asks, explaining his decision to begin purchasing cable companies. "I asked, What was it going to take to become the greatest communications company in the world...