Word: fitting
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...committee had already formulated a plane for the future of the department based on their view of the future of the field, and it was obvious that I did not fit in it," he added
What comes next is a long sculpting process to make the new company fit FCC regulations governing concentration and numbers of stations. It is certain that properties worth hundreds of millions of dollars will have to be sold off. The possible complexities are numbing. Because Buffett will be a major shareholder in Capital Cities/ ABC, his ownership of a chunk of the Washington Post Co. could result in the new company's having to sell two Washington radio stations. An FCC rule prohibits common ownership of a radio or TV station and a newspaper in the same city. Capital Cities...
...Korea as a way station for political asylum in Taiwan. With that in mind, Peking requested last Saturday that the Koreans return the ship and its entire crew. Seoul seemed certain to comply. The mutinous duo, however, are receiving medical treatment in a South Korean hospital. Once they are fit again, they will probably be allowed to go to Taiwan...
This Real Night, the first of the six, seems a fit beginning to West's posthumous career, smoothly bridging past and future. The novel is a sequel to The Fountain Overflows (1956), the chronicle of a shabby-genteel family in turn-of-the-century London. A third volume, to be published later, will complete the trilogy West planned to call Cousin Rosamund: A Saga of the Century. The subtitle radiates the same kind of old-fashioned hubris that led Wells to write The Outline of History; the continuation of West's saga shows how thoroughly her grasp matched her reach...
...fought with broken hands, throbbing ligaments and twisted ankles. Against Ali in 1980, that sad and empty passage, Holmes actually started the fight with stitches in one eyelid expertly hidden. If several foes have slammed him down, he always got up to win. In this sense, he is fit company for Marciano, whose wounds sometimes imposed deadlines that he always met. Of late, not surprisingly, Holmes has been reviewing all his fights on tape cassettes; but more than on Earnie Shavers, Mike Weaver or Renaldo Snipes, his focus has gone to the machine itself. "When I started out, I didn...