Word: generality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...million). Costs are expected to top $60 million before the channel begins operating in the black. (Revenues will come from advertising and a basic charge to cable systems of 7 cents per subscriber.) Most cable analysts, however, give top-rated NBC and its well-heeled corporate parent, General Electric, a good shot at making the service a success...
...tell you who. Foreign ambassadors, all kinds of consuls general, visitors, press people and so on. Even some of our own political leaders are saying it. I know our Arab people. If you ask me whether they can see real determination on the Jewish side, that all of us are united in our determination to stand fast, the answer is no. They see confusion. That gives them the wrong impression that sooner or later Israel will withdraw. It also encourages them to think that if they put on more pressure, it will happen sooner...
...efforts to provide support for the Nicaraguan contras involved not only North but also Ronald Reagan, former Secretary of State George Shultz, CIA Director William Casey and, most important, George Bush. The court paper was supplied by the staff of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh with the approval of Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. It had been drawn up to satisfy North's attorney, Brendan Sullivan, who had fought for months for the right to use classified documents to demonstrate that North's contra activities were part of a secret Administration policy...
...looked favorably on the deal. So have rank- and-file machinists, but by week's end machinists' union officials were criticizing the transaction as a giveaway to Lorenzo. "I think the deal stinks. They are cutting up Eastern so that it can't survive," said Wally Haber, senior general chairman of the airline's machinists' union. "I like to play baseball, but I like to play on a winning team." Some labor officials may have been talking tough because they still had to go to the bargaining table with Ueberroth...
...General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...