Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back their careers about 10 years (three for her; seven for him) by fronting another grueling CBS entry, Good Sports. Fawcett plays Gayle Roberts, a veteran anchor for an all-sports network run by a Ted Turner-like mogul. O'Neal is "Downtown" Bobby Tannen, an ex-football star fallen on hard times, who is brought in to be her on-air partner. Their bickering, Moonlighting-style relationship is signaled none too subtly in the opening cast credits: "Farrah Fawcett vs. Ryan O'Neal...
...that the communist regime has fallen, women want to reverse the communists' "emancipation" and go back to the house. Hungary is in a period of economic turmoil; its citizens are facing many hardships and are living for promises of future prosperity. The ideal would be a life where the husband earns enough money for the wife to remain at home. Hungarians do not see that this dream is impossible; even in prosperous Western countries millions of women work out of necessity...
Kerkorian, 73, collected $1.3 billion from the sale last month of his majority stake in MGM/UA Communications. Chrysler, which suffered a $214 million loss in the third quarter, must have looked like a bargain. Its stock price has fallen 40% in the past year, to 12 1/4. Even so, Kerkorian's strategy remains a mystery, since Chrysler's share of the auto market is weakening and the automaker's assets might be difficult to sell piecemeal...
...open hand, outstretched to a fallen adversary, may be the surest sign that a battle is truly over. Last week brought just such a sign as the Soviet government issued a dignified -- but desperate -- request for help, and an American President responded solicitously. George Bush's decision to help sustain the Soviet Union through the hard winter ahead reflected as much politics as pity, but what made it easy was that both sides had so much to gain...
...American entertainment conquest extend well beyond economics. As the age of the military superpowers ends, the U.S., with no planning or premeditation by its government, is emerging as the driving cultural force around the world, and will probably remain so through the next century. The Evil Empire has fallen. The Leisure Empire strikes back...