Word: farness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think so. If I go too far, number one, the networks will let me have it, and you better bet your bottom dollar they can. Number two -- more critical -- my supporters will back off. They'll no longer support me. And they shouldn't, and I hope they won't. But I don't think they're ever going to have to make that decision...
Short Takes has installed 20 booths so far in New York City and Minnesota, and plans to distribute 1,000 more around the U.S. during the next year or so. Coming later this summer: Baby Takes. Proud parents in maternity wards at three Minneapolis hospitals will soon be able to introduce the newest ham in the family. Come on, kid, wave...
...seemed to be in control again. But for how long? If the Chinese were being cowed into submission, a long- standing compact between them and their government had been broken. Tiananmen Square and Beijing might belong to the P.L.A., but the struggle for control of China is far from over...
...some important ways, however, the matchups look quite different. For one thing, the debt-free nature of the Time-Warner deal would have given the merged company far more flexibility than a Time-Paramount consolidation might have. "The Time-Warner combination left everybody's powder dry to be able to go out and make acquisitions," says Larry Gerbrandt, a vice president of Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based communications-industry analyst. "But in a tender offer like Paramount's, you have to load up with a tremendous amount of debt that limits your options. The strategy can work...
Though its record on the environment has been spotty so far, the Bush Administration last week took the lead in a major conservation issue by imposing a ban on ivory imports into the U.S. The move came just four days after a consortium of conservation groups, including the World Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation International, called for that kind of action, and it made the U.S. the first nation to forbid imports of both raw and finished ivory. The ban, says Bohlen, "sends a very clear message to the ivory poachers that the game is over...