Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Diller, the transaction will provide QVC with the financial strength to withstand an onslaught of new competition from big department stores like R.H. Macy and Nordstrom, all of which have announced plans to enter the home- shopping business. Combined, QVC and HSN will generate about $147 million in annual cash flow, which would come in handy to finance Diller's dream of taking TV shopping to its next evolutionary stage: making it interactive. An advanced interactive system would let viewers browse through a sort of "video catalog" of a store's merchandise and place orders on-line and on-screen...
...asylum and take away the right of tourists and students to appeal when their request for an extension is refused. Under pressure from the E.C., Spain requires visas for arrivals from Morocco. The Spanish have persuaded Morocco to take back its own citizens as well as others who illegally enter their country across the mouth of the Mediterranean...
...movie is slovenly about details. Relief pitchers sit in the dugout instead of the bullpen, and they enter the game without warming up; a significant plot point depends on a deliberate misunderstanding of how player contracts work; and everyone is so busy building a triumphant ending that the most basic inner logic of baseball is defied...
...proteins designed to latch on to a specific molecule on the surface of a tumor cell, while leaving normal cells untouched. In Bristol-Myers Squibb's experiment, the antibody was linked with the common anticancer drug doxorubicin, and unlike many previous preparations, this combination enabled the drug to enter tumor cells, killing them from the inside...
...which was one reason for its $3.8 billion purchase of 33% of McCaw Cellular Communications, the largest cellular company. This, however, could present regulatory problems. The seven regional Baby Bells accuse AT&T of trying to subvert the 1984 divestiture order by using the McCaw link to surreptitiously re-enter the local phone business. They want the Federal Communications Commission either to force AT&T to dissolve its McCaw alliance, or to lift the ban prohibiting local phone companies from offering long- distance service. Says Richard Brown, vice chairman of Ameritech, the Chicago-based Baby Bell: "AT&T is trying...