Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-made millionaire in real estate before he was 40, Berlusconi started buying Italian TV stations in 1978 and soon linked them into nationwide networks, with schedules heavily laced with game shows and U.S. movies and series. Though private TV networks are officially banned in Italy, a government edict allowed Berlusconi's popular channels to continue...
With this edict, Wilson sets in motion an exquisite comedy of errors. Clandestine meetings become necessary, with the following results: the painter, Timothy Lupton, falls in love with Maudie, while her mother decides that this dashed handsome young bohemian's attentions are directed at her. Added to this mix-up are cameo appearances by Victorian notables like Walter Pater, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope and Thomas Huxley. But beneath this sparkling surface roil undercurrents of genuine pain. Nettleship, a figure of fun in all his balding, pedantic outward manifestations, knows himself well enough to realize that he has botched his life...
...well as taking action on the economic front, Babangida moved aggressively to ensure basic human rights for Nigerians. An hour after taking the presidential oath of office, he abolished an edict that Buhari had used to muzzle criticism from the lively Nigerian press. Babangida permitted Buhari to retire honorably from the army. Buhari's right-hand man, Major General Tunde Idiagbon, a Muslim, was allowed to return from Saudi Arabia, where he was making a pilgrimage to Mecca when the coup occurred. Noted a Nigerian journalist: "In most countries, a man like Idiagbon would have been shot...
...edict was softened by one significant exception. The Navy indefinitely extended a deadline for bids on four new attack submarines. This leaves open the possibility that General Dynamics will eventually be permitted to compete for this contract despite its current suspension. According to the Defense Department, the reprieve is an effort to preserve competition among contractors. Only one other firm, the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., is capable of making the attack submarine. Said Navy Secretary John Lehman: "This is not an action to protect General Dynamics. This is an action to protect the public interest...
...Characters may be shot in lyrical long shots or bathed in moody lighting or framed against semiabstract pastel backdrops. The local color of South Florida is augmented by the local colors: flamingo pink, lime green, Caribbean blue. Miami Vice has been filmed under what may be the strangest production edict in TV history: "No earth tones...