Word: fought
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...that allows his network bosses, if they wish, to move him this June into the largely ceremonial position of chairman and to appoint a new president who would not report to Arledge. But when Robert Iger, president of ABC Inc., decided he wanted to make such a change, Arledge fought it, arguing that he was still at the top of his game. By some accounts, Michael Eisner, chairman of ABC's parent Walt Disney Co., intervened on Arledge's behalf (the two worked at ABC at the same time during the 1970s). In the end, Arledge prevailed upon Iger...
...last night, and neither should the rest of us." Shine director Scott Hicks disagrees, blaming "the guardians of the elite" for demanding too much of Helfgott. Gillian Helfgott's view is much the same. "I think there are probably people who are coming to see a man who has fought his way through the wilderness," she told a Boston press conference, from which her husband was notably absent. "But if they come for that reason, I think they leave deeply touched...
...prospects for community outreach excite Delaney-Smith in the same manner as the future of women's athletics. But, having fought numerous battles over gender equity in her career, she knows that there is still a long road to travel before parity between genders is reached in athletics...
...work of a single group or individual. And the fact that Mitby had received a particularly odious e-mail from a board member of the BGLTSA suggests that extremists within the gay rights movement may be responsible for one or more of these vicious attacks. We at Peninsula have fought out battles with the pen, but have been answered with a rhetorical sword. This campaign of ideological genocide, however, shall not succeed for Peninsula is committed, now more that ever, to spreading the simple message of "Faith, Family and Freedom...
...casualty of a fund-raising machine whose very creation he opposed. It was Dick Morris, the consultant turned million-dollar author, who pushed Clinton in 1995 to make his comeback with a centrist, ad-driven strategy that would require truckloads of cash. Ickes, almost alone in the West Wing, fought the scheme. Yet when he lost the argument, Ickes executed it to the letter, keeping fund raisers on schedule in memo after memo written in a tiny, pinched scrawl. Clinton has shooed away both men. But while Morris has begun his comeback, Ickes remains in limbo...