Word: gate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sooner was Marcos left conspicuously alone at the starting gate than the breakfast clubs and coffee shops, where Filipino politicians, reporters and businessmen regularly trade information and gossip, were swept with rumors that the President's backers were dangling big money in front of potential candidates so that somebody would run against him. Assemblyman Reuben Canoy told TIME that a supporter of Marcos' had offered the equivalent of $1.3 million to Canoy if he would challenge the President. Canoy turned the opportunity down. A longtime Marcos ally eventually surfaced as a candidate: Alejo Santos, 69, the fourth choice...
...object lesson in how to blend the art of storytelling with the highest levels of technical know-how, planning, cost control and commercial acumen. Most of its relatively low, $20 million budget (half what Michael Cimino was permitted to squander on his out-of-control flop, Heaven's Gate) is, as they say in Hollywood, "on the screen." It will therefore surely make money. The only question is whether it will rival the huge worldwide grosses of Star Wars ($500 million) and The Empire Strikes Back ($300 million...
Although the discovery of four pieces of type beneath the Wadsworth Gate did not affect the scientific world, it caused quite a stir among historians and anthropologists when it was announced in March. Found while construction on the new subway line continued, the type was dated before 1674 and is believed to be linked with the first printing press in America...
...Harvard's ever-dwindling General Education program, has watched the great curricular reform of the 1940s grind to a finish. Gen Ed was to the 1940s what the Core will be to the 80s. Another educational scheme in a dynastic cycle. Another reform that burst out of the gate and lost it past the clubhouse turn. It's hardly a new story...
...acquisition makes sense for both sides. United Artists seemed the odd man out in Transamerica's financial services company. Heaven's Gate had demoralized the firm and caused a management shakeup. MGM was attracted to UA because it owns a library of about 2,000 old films that can be sold to cable TV. MGM executives also want to control United Artists' worldwide distribution network, since they will now collect the distributor's 30% cut of their movies' gross ticket sales. Says Merrill Lynch Vice President Harold Vogel: "The merger means MGM will...