Word: eye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deal is likely to reshape business alliances in both industries. Cable and telephone companies that once viewed themselves as fierce competitors are starting to eye each other as potential mates. "You can bet every major cable operator is talking to every phone company right now," says a cable-industry insider. Meanwhile, the deal could shatter whatever solidarity still exists among the so-called Baby Bells -- the seven regional phone companies that were created by the breakup of AT&T in 1984. Until now, each has enjoyed a monopoly on local telephone service in its own region; long-distance phone companies...
Rameau's Niece has some redeeming moments, Schine has a good eye for detail and for capturing the essence of a scene, it is becoming her own aesthetic signature. Ultimately, the work crumbles under the weight of its unwieldy structure and its astonishing social anachronisms...
...what appears to be a sick voyeuristic obsession with that deteriorating body, Frank quotes "eye-witnesses" who claim that Burke "continued to prepare food while he was deathly ill" and "appeared gaunt and sickly in the months preceding his departure" even though he never disclosed his HIV status. One cannot help but wonder whether Mr. Frank believes that AIDS becomes an issue only when it is "visible...
...been unable to find evidence linking the sheik to the Trade Center bombing. But when he traveled around the U.S. in March, the bureau kept such a close eye on him that the agents felt they had to concoct a reason for the surveillance: they told the sheik that they were there to protect...
...world watches a messy ground war. Besides, we may get lucky. The Serbs may conclude they've grabbed enough territory and stop their killing, in which case no one's going to fight to roll back their land grab. The point is we're trying to keep our eye on the ball" -- and America's eyes off Bosnia. "I'd like to go on ((to)) something else," the President said last week. "I wish I didn't have to spend ((so)) much time on it." Look, says an Administration political aide, "the ball game for us is the economy, period...