Word: dovetailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some respects, a Time-Paramount combination would create a company similar, in structure if not in control, to the one envisioned in the Time- Warner deal. Time's magazine and book publishing operations, which include TIME, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and TIME-LIFE Books, might dovetail effectively with Paramount's book division. Time's cable television programming units, including Home Box Office and Cinemax, could mesh with Paramount's film-studio and television ventures. Time's cable-television systems would provide distribution vehicles for that product. Warner, meanwhile, has film, cable-TV and publishing units and differs from Paramount in owning...
...HARVARD rehearsal centered around two of Bloom's pieces--"Two-Five-One" and "an abstract ballad" called "Desert". And Bloom took the session as seriously as her charges. She knew exactly how loud the triple forte should be, exactly how to dovetail each section with the next...
...style," and what some former associates more bluntly term mental laziness, were largely offset during his successful first term by the advice of an exceptionally talented group of aides. But since re-election the President has been surrounded by advisers whose own deficiencies, as the commission makes clear, disastrously dovetail with those of their boss...
Three stories dovetail in this small book. One of them involves the ordeal of Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor on a Colombian destroyer. He was swept overboard and into the Caribbean, along with seven other crew members, on Feb. 28, 1955, and endured ten days in a life raft before swimming ashore to what would become a hero's welcome. Once the cheering had died down, Velasco offered to sell his account to El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota. A young reporter named Gabriel Garcia Marquez spent some 120 hours interviewing the survivor and shaping his recollections into a first...
Those explanations dovetail nicely with the apparent rise in Gromyko's influence. He derives clout from long experience as the Kremlin's top diplomat and a flawless record of cleaving to the collective Politburo line. Says Uri Ra'anan, professor at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "I am astounded at Gromyko's authority. He has absolutely no political power base." Agrees Pipes: "By default, he has moved...