Word: jerrold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August with the $485 million buy-out of Embassy Communications and Tandem Productions. Embassy currently has five shows on the air, including Diff'rent Strokes, Silver Spoons and ABC television's surprise hit, Who's the Boss? More important, Embassy, which was formerly owned by Producers Norman Lear and Jerrold Perenchio, holds syndication rights to such shows as Maude, Sanford & Son, One Day at a Time and The Jeffersons. Mike Mellon, a vice president of research for Walt Disney Productions, estimates the value of Embassy's rights at $500 million...
...board's hand was forced by a hostile takeover bid by two producers: Norman Lear, creator of the TV series All in the Family, and A. Jerrold Perenchio, promoter of the 1971 Ali-Frazier fight. As principals in cash-rich L.P. Media, Lear and Perenchio had offered $1,000 a share for ENA stock last month. That offer alone was enough to roil the Scripps family: ENA stock had been selling sporadically at only $150 a share two years ago. Late last year, in an attempt to placate family members disgruntled over the stock's performance, Clark bought back...
...excluded three reporters, on what appeared to be a political basis: William Greider of Rolling Stone, whose Atlantic Monthly interviews with Budget Director David Stockman raised questions about the integrity of the Reagan budget-planning process; Nashville Tennessean Editor John Siegen-thaler, who served in the Kennedy Administration; and Jerrold Schechter of Esquire, a former TIME correspondent who served in the Carter Administration...
...going, Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, director of the lab, taped some 30 electrodes and sensors over the major muscle groups in her legs. Then he instructed a small desktop computer to fire successive bursts of electricity, each carefully orchestrated to trigger the right muscles at the proper time. A feedback system monitored the movements of Davis' ankles, knees and hips, making corrections as necessary...
...theory the battle which educators have waged for the last two years appears to be won, but R. Jerrold Gibson, director of fiscal services for Harvard, said that in practice there may yet be difficulties...