Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazines and a daily racing-tip sheet be worth billions of dollars? Maybe so, if the buyer is Keith Rupert Murdoch. Last week the Australian-born press baron agreed to buy Triangle Publications, which puts out TV Guide (circ. 17.1 million), the Daily Racing Form (123,000) and Seventeen (1.9 million), from Walter Annenberg, the California businessman and philanthropist, for $3 billion. While TV Guide may be the undisputed king of television listings and boast the largest circulation of any U.S. magazine, media experts concur that Murdoch is paying a premium price that will add to his already considerable debt...
...When we look at the universe, we are seeing it as it was in the past." In those galactic outer reaches, too, lies hidden the answer to a tantalizing mystery: How soon after the cataclysmic fireball of the big bang, from which the universe presumably emerged, did the galaxies form...
...West Bank, some Palestinians regard Hussein's withdrawal as a positive step toward some form of Palestinian statehood, and believe the moment is right for the P.L.O. to create a government-in-exile in the occupied territories. Others are less sanguine. On Saturday, Israeli television reported that authorities had seized an embryonic "declaration of independence" drawn up by Palestinian leaders. Many Palestinians fear that Hussein has opened the door to annexation by Israel...
...occupation. The intifadeh has become a tug of war for economic and psychological advantage. The pervasive commercial strike under which Arab shops open for only three hours a day remains one of the most palpable symbols of Palestinian solidarity. The army has given up trying to break this form of protest...
...Jesus to be understood? Did he stride out of the wilderness 2,000 years ago to preach a gentle message of peace and brotherhood? Or did he perhaps advocate some form of revolution? Or did he instead look for heavenly intervention to establish the kingdom of God? What did it mean for Jesus to be tempted by sin? When did he realize that his mission would end with death upon a cross? Did he view himself as the promised Messiah? Did he understand himself to be both God and man, and what imponderable struggles of the soul would that have...