Word: errand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Home Shopping Network, which he sold for a bundle in 1992. Nor would Barry Diller, a genuine TV honcho who makes a lot of money and headlines, qualify as anything less than bright. But each is about to embark on what would appear to be a fool's errand: starting a new television network in an era in which audiences are fragmenting and network profits disappearing. Paxson and Diller are joining upstarts UPN and the WB in trying to prove that the problem with TV is not the network but the financial model on which it is based...
...course, I really could be anywhere, at any time. I could be a traveler in 19th century Russia, for instance, tromping from village to village on some unspecified romantic errand, crushing the thick-caked snow under my boots and taking courage from the lights of the candles in the cottages, if you catch my drift. Winter lights have much the same power the world over...
Even on a simple errand like a trip to Byerly Hall, Dylan tags along...
...would get into these moods when he was very abrupt. He called me up late one day and demanded I do some kind of errand which was not for his research but for some kind of consulting he was doing," the co-worker says...
...scientist can see the future by watching four-year-olds interact with a marshmallow. The researcher invites the children, one by one, into a plain room and begins the gentle torment. You can have this marshmallow right now, he says. But if you wait while I run an errand, you can have two marshmallows when I get back. And then he leaves...